Users Guide
Property Denition
Certied Indicates that the drive has rmware which has been tested and fully qualied by the service
provider. Drives that are not certied by the service provider may work but, are not supported
and recommended for use in servers.
Media Displays the media type of the physical disk. The possible values are:
• HDD — Hard Disk Drive. An HDD is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally-
encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic surfaces.
• SSD — Solid-State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to
store persistent data.
• Unknown — Storage Management is unable to determine the media type of the physical
disk.
Used RAID Disk Space Displays the amount of the physical disk space that is used by the virtual disks on the
controller. This property is not applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers.
In certain circumstances, the Used RAID Disk Space displays a value of zero (0) even though
a portion of the physical disk is actually being used. This occurs when the used space is
0.005GB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk space rounds o a gure of
0.005GB or less than zero. Used disk space that is between 0.006GB and 0.009GB is rounded
o to 0.01GB.
Available RAID Disk Space Displays the amount of available space on the disk. This property is not applicable for physical
disks attached to non-RAID controllers.
Hot Spare Indicates whether the disk has been assigned as a hot spare. This property is not applicable for
physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers.
Vendor ID Displays the hardware vendor of the disk.
Product ID Displays the product ID of the device.
Firmware Revision Displays the rmware version of the physical device.
Serial No. Displays the serial number of the disk.
PCIe Negotiated Link Speed Displays the current negotiated transfer speed of the physical device in GT/s.
PCIe Maximum Link Speed Displays the capable transfer speed of the physical device in GT/s.
Manufacture Day Displays the day of the month on which the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture Week Displays the week of the year during which the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture Year Displays the year in which the physical disk was manufactured.
SAS Address Displays the SAS address of the physical disk. The SAS address is unique to each SAS disk.
After Import Status Displays the status of the physical disk after importing the foreign conguration. Possible
values are:
• Foreign
• Online
• Oine
• Replaced
• Rebuild
Encryption Capable Displays whether the physical disk is a Self Encryption Disk (SED). The possible values are Yes
and No.
Encrypted Displays whether the physical disk is encrypted to the controller. The possible values are Yes
and No. For a non-SED the value is N/A.
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