SMART on SATA Drives?

[Dave]

Hi

I currently have two Samsung Spinpoint 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 0
Array on A7N8X Rev.2 board. My question - is it possible to enable
SMART on these drives, and if so how? Also how limited am I if I wish
to upgrade to a new motherboard in the future if I wish to keep these
drives?

Dave

 

[Philip Callan]

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Dave wrote:
| Hi
|
| I currently have two Samsung Spinpoint 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 0
| Array on A7N8X Rev.2 board. My question - is it possible to enable
| SMART on these drives, and if so how? Also how limited am I if I wish
| to upgrade to a new motherboard in the future if I wish to keep these
| drives?
|
| Dave
You shouldnt have to 'enable' it, upond POST if the detection screen
shows S.M.A.R.T. after your HD, its running, get a windows utility to
read the smart codes and double check, but Im sure its not switchable,
(ie Always On)
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[Ben Pope]

Hi

I currently have two Samsung Spinpoint 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 0
Array on A7N8X Rev.2 board. My question - is it possible to enable
SMART on these drives, and if so how? Also how limited am I if I wish
to upgrade to a new motherboard in the future if I wish to keep these
drives?

Using the latest BIOS on a Rev2.0, my WD Raptor has SMART enabled, I can
read the info using AIDA32.

Ben

 

[Ben Pope]

Hi

I currently have two Samsung Spinpoint 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 0
Array on A7N8X Rev.2 board. My question - is it possible to enable
SMART on these drives, and if so how? Also how limited am I if I wish
to upgrade to a new motherboard in the future if I wish to keep these
drives?

Oh... in terms of keeping the hard drives, fine, as long as you get a
motherboard with SATA.

In terms of keeping your RAID partition... unlikely if the new controller is
not by Silicon Image - you'd need somewhere big enough to store your data,
repartition with the new controller and restore. You keep regular backups
anyway, right? .

Silicon Image SATA controllers that do RAID are reasonably inexpensive, I
think. But double check compatibility with the old controllers' partition
before going this route.

Ben

 

[Dave]

Using the latest BIOS on a Rev2.0, my WD Raptor has SMART enabled, I can
read the info using AIDA32.

Ben

Ben

Thanks for your replies. In AIDA32 it states that SMART is supported
but when I click on SMART icon there is no information.

David