User guide
RAID Utility User Guide 13
Checking the Status of RAID Components
You can use RAID Utility to check the status of the RAID card, its battery, your RAID
volumes, and the drives and RAID sets they’re built on.
Overall status
List of events
To check the status of a component:
1 Open RAID Utility.
2 Click an item in the left column.
You can also check RAID component status using System Proler. Choose About This
Mac from the Apple menu and click More Info. Then select Hardware RAID under
Hardware in the Contents list. System Proler is also available in /Applications/Utilities/.
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) status information is
available only for SATA drives.
Reviewing Event Messages
RAID Utility keeps a list of events related to the current state of the RAID card, RAID
volumes, and their components.
To view events:
1 Open RAID Utility.
2 Click Status in the left column.
To erase an event, click the button in the Clear column.