How to know an external drive is failing in macos before it goes bad? Or how to otherwise prepare?

I had two drive failure compromise my video collection in one instance and my backup in the second. In the first case, video data became silently corrupt on an external USB SSD, in the second, older backups became inaccessible on an external USB HD. In both cases, I realized there was a problem because I randomly tried to access the data and not because of any strategy to check the health of the drive, data or backups. Indeed, in the first case corrupt data had already overwritten the backup. It’s starting to feel like I can’t rely on long term local storage or local backup on external drives. I see the windows folks access SMART stats, but on the mac I don’t have that option for an external drive AFAIK. The SSD drive was Samsung and the HDD a Seagate, so reasonable brands, and the Seagate just year-old. The SSD was older, but used as an archive and subject to modest read-only loads. What are my options, if any, to be prepared for and detect an imminent hardware failure or data corruption on an external usb drive under mac OS? Thanks! (of course I have a second backup, thanks for asking, but I need to make storage more reliable to avoid overwriting it with bad data and I want a local backup as well).