How can I tell if a USB hard drive will support SMART?

Why?

Every hard drive I have had fail, and I've had a few, two within 5 months of each other and S.M.A.R.T. has told me nothing. So, I turned it off.

Use Chkdsk or ScanDisk, depending on your operating system. :)

In answer to your question ...

Depending on the type of interface being used, some S.M.A.R.T.-enabled motherboards and related software may not communicate with certain S.M.A.R.T.-capable drives. For example, few external drives connected via USB and Firewire correctly send S.M.A.R.T. data over those interfaces. With so many ways to connect a hard drive (SCSI, Fibre Channel, ATA, SATA, SAS, SSA, and so on), it is difficult to predict whether S.M.A.R.T. reports will function correctly in a given system.
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... so, probably not a SMART drive. :lol:


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