Users Guide

• Customized Power Savings Mode — Allows you to customize the power-saving settings. The default values are populated when you

select this power mode. You can select or clear the features you want to enable. You can select Quality of Service (QoS) to customize

power saving on congured drives by setting the Start Time and Time interval to spin up.

To enable the Quality of Service (QoS) feature:

1 Select Customized Power Savings Mode.

2 Select Enable for the Spin Down Congured Drives option

Properties In Manage Physical Disk Power Option

The following table displays the properties in the Manage Physical Disk Power option:

Table 12. Manage Physical Disk Power Properties

Property Denition

Spin Down Uncongured Drives The Enabled option spins down the uncongured disks if they are

unattended for a specied interval of time.

Spin Down Hot Spares The Enabled option spins down the hot spares if no read‑write

operation takes place on the hot spare in a specied interval of

time.

Spin Down Congured Drives The Enabled option spins down the congured disks if they are

unattended for a specied interval of time.

Automatic Disk Power Saving (Idle C) Enables or disables the Automatic Disk Power Saving (Idle C)

feature for additional power saving. When enabled, it enables the

new generation power savings without aecting the legacy drives.

Time Interval for Spin Down Sets the time interval after which the hot spares and uncongured

drives spins down.

Quality Of Service (QOS)

Enable Quality Of Service Settings Select to set the start time and the time interval for spin up activity

at the virtual disk level.

NOTE: This option is available only if the Spin Down

Congured Drives option is selected.

Start Time (HH:MM) Displays the start time of the battery learn cycle. This option is

enabled only if Enable Quality Of Service Settings is selected.

Time Interval for Spin Up (in Hours) Displays the spin up time interval for the battery learn cycle. The

time interval can range from 1-24 hours.

Physical Disk Power On Uncongured Drives And Hot Spares

1 Select Enabled for the Spin Down Uncongured Drives and Spin Down Hot Spares options.

2 Click Apply Changes. To exit and cancel your changes, click Go Back to Previous Page.

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