User Guide

Chapter 5: Monitor and Manage

.The information tab displays the following information:

• Drive Model – The disk drive manufacturer’s model name or number.

• Serial Number – The serial number of this disk drive.

• Firmware Version – The version number of the firmware on this disk drive.

• Port Number – The number of the SATA port on the motherboard to which

this drive is connected.

• Target ID – The target ID number of this disk drive.

• Drive Status – The operational status of this disk drive. Functional means

normal. Others include Offline.

• Background Activity – The current background activity affecting this disk

drive. Idle means no activity. Others include Initializing and Rebuilding.

• Capacity – The data capacity of this disk drive in GB.

• S.M.A.R.T. Status – SMART, an acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and

Reporting Technology, is a feature of the disk drive software. When this

feature is supported, the drive will pass SMART information to the SATA

controller when it polls the physical drives.

• Write Cache Status – Indicates whether the disk drive’s write cache is

Enabled or Disabled. You can change this status under the Settings tab (see

below).

• SATA – The SATA data rate of the disk drive, 1.5 Gb/s or 3Gb/s.