As always, prior to updating, create a backup of your USB flash device: "Main/Flash/Flash Device Settings" - click "Flash Backup".
Hopefully spin-up/down sorted:
External code (docker containers) using 'smartctl -n standby' should work ok with SATA drives. This will remain problematic for SAS until/unless smartmontools v7.2 is released with support for '-n standby' with SAS.
SMART is unconditionally enabled on devices upon boot. This solves problem where some newly