Managing Physical Drives : Viewing Physical Drive Properties

Viewing Physical Drive Properties

Select a physical drive from a drive group in the Controller dashboard to view its properties. The following figure and table describe the physical drive properties.

Table 9. Physical Drive Properties

Property

Description

MegaRAID

iMegaRAID

Software RAID

IntegratedRAID

Initiator- Target

Status

The current status of the physical drives.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Exposed As

To differentiate the physical drives, the drives are exposed as one of the following drive:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Product ID

The product ID of the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Vendor ID

The ID assigned to the physical drive by the vendor.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Serial Number

The serial number of the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Shield Counter

The shield counter value

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Device ID

The device ID of the physical drive that is assigned by the manufacturer.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Usable Capacity

The usable storage capacity, based on the RAID level used.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Raw Capacity

The actual full capacity of the drive before any coercion mode is applied to reduce the capacity.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

General Properties

SAS Address 0

The World Wide Name (WWN) for the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SAS Address 1

The World Wide Name (WWN) for the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Negotiated Link Speed

The negotiated link speed for data transfer to and from the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Drive Speed

The speed of the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Temperature

The temperature of the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Revision Level

The revision level of the physical drive’s firmware.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Power Status

The Power Status displays the following status:

*

On– A physical drive is spun up.

*

Power Save– A physical drive is spun down.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Native Command Queueing

Indicates if the native command queueing function is enabled. Native command queueing enables the physical drive to queue the I/O requests and reorder them for efficiency.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Physical Sector Size

The size of the physical sector of the drive. The possible options are 4 KB or 512 B.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Enclosure Properties

Enclosure ID

The ID of the enclosure in which the physical drive is located.

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Enclosure Model

The type of enclosure in which the physical drive is located.

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Enclosure Location

The port number of the enclosure to which the physical drive is connected.

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Enclosure Connector

Indicates the connector name, position, and size of the wide port.

Wide ports:

[Port 0-3 x4] –Single X4 wide port

[Port 0-3 x4] & [Port 4-7 x4]– Two X4 wide ports

[Port 0-3 & Port 4-7 x8]– Single X8 wide port

Single Drive

[Port 0-3 x1]

Yes

Yes

NO

Yes

Yes

Drive Security Properties

Full Disk Encryption Capable

Indicates if disk encryption is enabled for the physical drive.

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Secured

Indicates if the drive is secured.

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Protection Information Properties

Protection Information

Indicates if the SCSI Protection Information type is active for the drive.

Yes

Yes

No

No

No