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I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit from a 2 disk RAID1 volume. I'm using the Intel RAID controller built into my motherboard.

I'd like to have some sort of early warning if one of the drives starts to show signs of death. Can you guys recommend some good monitoring software that'll pipe up and tell me if I need to replace one of my drives?

I haven't used a RAID configuration before today. It was nice and easy to set up, but I'm having a hard time finding monitoring software.

Thanks!

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What motherboard do you have? Depending on what RAID chip and motherboard manufacturer, you may have different software packages available. – Force Flow Aug 21 '10 at 0:41
The motherboard is a Gigabyte X58A-UD3R – DoctaJonez Aug 21 '10 at 9:07
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I am not sure, but I would try if a SMART monitor (like smartmontools) can read the data from the disks.

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