Recent content by briansea

I see an on/off selection for Intel Rapid Storage Software in BIOS but no info on how to access or use said IRS software. Looked online for answers, even the Intel site, but still don't know how to find out which drive is bad and on which port it resides. (Motherboard is Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark...

Does anyone know of a utility program or a raid controller that allows you to identify which hard drive in a RAID 5 array has failed when failure is indicated by error messages in windows? Windows doesn't seem to be much help as it sees a RAID 5 array as a single drive. I don't have a separate...

I'm not using a separate raid card. It is a feature of the motherboard. (Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1) and there doesn't seem to be a utility related to hd health except SMART but that says all discs are fine. Windows and the sluggishness of the performance disagree w/SMART. Anyway, I'm not...

Windows is telling me I have a failing hd. Since I'm running a raid 5 array, windows sees the array as a single drive. How can I identify the bad drive? Windows 7 Pro running 1TB x 3 RAID 5 array