On Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:

Derp. I missed that it was a laptop.
I guess for SMART your only option is to put the drives into a "real"
computer (e.g. a NAS chassis) instead of just a bus adapter.

Actually, it is one of those rare laptops with esata ports, so the main (data) drive is on esata while the backup is on USB. As the backup software does it's own verifications this should suffice.

-Noah