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Some, if not most, USB2 to SATA/SAS bridges also allows passing these commands. smartctl can talk with most of the bridges to pass-thru commands, at least for SMART purposes.

Seagate's 3.5" Backup Plus Hub drives mask the disk itself intentionally to show itself as a different, generic Seagate device, probably to prevent people from messing with the disk settings and identifying the disk itself.




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