[ProllyInfamous]

I'm a former 4,1 user, myself — replaced with an M2Pro mini Jan 2023 (finally retired fully 2025).

Absolutely recommend you purchase the 4-bay Terramaster external enclosure — gives you four SATA slots that are hot-swappable (unlike MacPro's). 10gbps via USB-C.

[Marsymars]

Are SMART attributes independently readable on that? (Or any multi-drive USB-C enclosures?)

[ProllyInfamous]

It does not appear that SMART is supported on either version of my TerraMaster enclosures.

Still an inexpensive solution to help ease your transition away from MacPro"5,1"land.

As USB-C is a physical form factor (capable of supporting multiple protocols), I would think that the ability to have multidrive external SMART support would be up to the vendor's choice of datachip/datastream. Again: my Acasis does support SMART for nVMEs.

[ProllyInfamous]

>or any USB-C enclosure

SMART is supported on my external Acasis nVME.

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I have two TerraMaster sledbads; this one [typing] is years older [only 5gbps, macOS Ventura] and shows `SMART: not supported` [1]

[1] It's mirrored WD_blacks (RAID1) so I have at least some redundancy... I know: a RAID does NOT count as "backed-up".

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Within an hour I'll have checked the newer system (I suspect it'll be similar — definitely faster!).

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