I'm in the middle of building a new home file server and have a couple of questions regarding the SMART disk monitoring utility that comes with most drives these days...
1) The utility I'm using to monitor the SMART info on the drives is through my RAID controller's management GUI (Highpoint PCIe RocketRAID 2310). With this utility, I'm only able to view the info, not create alerts. Are there any utilities that can monitor the SMART info and allow me to create alerts (specifically temperature -- I'm having cooling issues)? I looked around and saw a couple but they only worked if the OS (XP in my case) could "see" the physical disks -- since I'm using a RAID controller XP only sees the logical drive. I'm guessing it's driver-dependent, but has anyone seen SMART monitoring software that works with RAID controllers?
2) When the disks are being thrashed, during a rebuild test on the array, the temp on one of my drives spikes up to 62C. If I pause the rebuild, the temperature *immediately* drops to 50-51 (60 seconds after it's down to 45ish). Is this realistic? There's no active cooling on this particular drive, so I have a hard time believing it can drop 10 degrees C in a matter of a second.
1) The utility I'm using to monitor the SMART info on the drives is through my RAID controller's management GUI (Highpoint PCIe RocketRAID 2310). With this utility, I'm only able to view the info, not create alerts. Are there any utilities that can monitor the SMART info and allow me to create alerts (specifically temperature -- I'm having cooling issues)? I looked around and saw a couple but they only worked if the OS (XP in my case) could "see" the physical disks -- since I'm using a RAID controller XP only sees the logical drive. I'm guessing it's driver-dependent, but has anyone seen SMART monitoring software that works with RAID controllers?
2) When the disks are being thrashed, during a rebuild test on the array, the temp on one of my drives spikes up to 62C. If I pause the rebuild, the temperature *immediately* drops to 50-51 (60 seconds after it's down to 45ish). Is this realistic? There's no active cooling on this particular drive, so I have a hard time believing it can drop 10 degrees C in a matter of a second.
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