How to do hard drive diagnostics on an Intel array

fireice

My desktop computer has 2 x 250 GB western digital hard drives in it, in a Raid 0 configuration. Now that the pc is more than 3 years old, I want to check the hard drive's S.M.A.R.T status and perform some simple diagnostics on it to check that it's still ok.

The computer's running windows vista and under disk drives in the device manger all that is listed is "ARRAY".

Now I've got a laptop with just one seagate drive in it and I can run seatools to check S.M.A.R.T and run drive tests to check it's all working ok but with the desktop pc, all software only recognizes the array and is not able to perform the tests on it. Since the hard drives are manufactured by western digital, I have also tried their tools in windows but they don't recognise the hard drives either.

My question is how can I check the health of the 2 hard drives in the desktop pc?

Toxteth_OGrady

Try the Intel Matrix Storage Console.

S0litaire

Do you know if it is hardware or software RAID?

The RAID controller usually hides the physical drives behind virtual disks.

if it's hardware their might be a tool to check SMART status...

otherwise you'll have to break RAID to check the drives...

fireice

S0litaire wrote: »

Do you know if it is hardware or software RAID?

The RAID controller usually hides the physical drives behind virtual disks.

if it's hardware their might be a tool to check SMART status...

otherwise you'll have to break RAID to check the drives...

How do you go about checking if it's a hardware or software raid?

esuhl

fireice wrote: »

How do you go about checking if it's a hardware or software raid?

I think that if you have RAID built-in to a consumer motherboard, it's likely to be "fakeraid" (i.e. software-based). If the RAID controller was an expensive add-on card, then it may well be "true" hardware RAID...