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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: alokep on December 22, 2010, 11:22:13 am

Title: Monitor SMART status of individual drives?
Post by: alokep on December 22, 2010, 11:22:13 am

This is on the motherboard Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 which has 3 SATA controllers: Intel, Marvell, Gigabyte.

I have a question about the Gigabyte SATA controller.

I have 2 drives in RAID 1 attached to the Gigabyte SATA controller. The OS is Windows 7 Pro.

How do I monitor the health of the drives, look at SMART error counts etc?

The Gigabyte Raid Configurer (v 1.17.59) in Windows lists the drives but has no place to show SMART errors. Other Windows utilities (like HDTune) see the volume as 1 disk and cannot read SMART from individual drives that are being controlled by the RAID bios before Windows loads up.

How do I look at the health of my RAIDed drives?

Thanks.
Aloke

Title: Re: Monitor SMART status of individual drives?
Post by: Dark Mantis on December 22, 2010, 11:50:08 am

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

I do not say I am any sort of expert in the is field but I thought that SMART wasn't compatible with RAID arrays. I am sure someone else will confirm or deny this is the case.

Title: Re: Monitor SMART status of individual drives?
Post by: alokep on December 22, 2010, 11:55:10 am

Then how would I keep an eye on the health of the two drives connected to the Gigabyte controller?