I am in need of a new 2.5-inch hard disk to replace the dead unit in my HP laptop. HP wants essentially the price of a new laptop just for the replacement drive - uninstalled.
My present (dead) Toshiba drive has the S.M.A.R.T. condition-monitoring "hooks".
I can't find the SMART feature listed on any new drive specs. (OK one or two obsolete drives mention it.) Is the SMART monitoring feature so standard that it is automatically assumed these days?
Thanks for any info,
seacue