The SoftRAID application window has two columns of information tiles: Disks and Volumes. Pipes show the connections between disks and volumes. These are displayed whenever a single disk or volume is selected. The text on the Disk tiles shows size and type information and an icon indicates which driver controls the disk. Icons on the Volume tiles show the type of each volume and the text details volume size and the version of any installed system. The window above contains 5 disks (1 controlled by Apple's driver and 4 controlled by SoftRAID) and 3 volumes (a SoftRAID startup volume (non-RAID), an Apple non-RAID volume and a SoftRAID Stripe volume).

The disk and volume tiles also display information on the state of the disks and volumes. See the Mirror Essentials and Stripe Essentials sections of the Manual for a discussion of these states.

When the Application is not running, SoftRAID still monitors the condition of all disks and volumes. The SoftRAID Monitor will notify the user of any changes in those states. See the Monitor portion of the Glossary in the SoftRAID Manual for a discussion of the Monitor preference settings.