# SATARaid GUI Overview

The SATARaid GUI offers the user the ability to easily monitor your RAID Set. To launch the GUI, simply double-click on the icon located in the bottom right hand corner of the Desktop. If the icon does not appear in the bottom right hand corner of the desktop, find where the application was saved and launch from there.

Upon launching the GUI, the the first window which identifies the computer running SATARaid should appear. Selecting each different component in the configuration tree provides specific information for that component, such as the chip. Selecting a specific channel, either Primary or Secondary, will show the Addresses, DMA and Cable information. Selecting a specific drive reports all pertinent information to that drive, including the drive's serial number, firmware version, ATA version and current mode as well as Configuration and Disk Identification information. Selecting Sets lists the Sets in the configuration tree and provides information on RIO Version.

By selecting a specific RAID set, such as Set 0, the type of RAID set, the number of members and capacity is reported. The Members tab of this window reports the device identification (corresponding with the information in the BIOS) and the State of each device.

Besides reporting information, the Members tab of a Mirrored set allows the user to remove a specific drive from that set, as well as add a designated Spare drive to a Mirrored set that has experienced a disk failure. A drive can NOT be removed from a Striped set as this would destroy all data. Note that when a Mirrored Set is first created, the State of the "destination" drive may report as Rebuild for as much as 30-90 minutes depending on the size of the disk.

SMART and Configuration information, as well as Data Identification are again provided for each Set.