Users Guide
Menu Item Description
Certified Displays if the physical disk is Dell certified or not.
Connector Port Displays the port number in which the physical disk is installed.
SAS Address Displays the SAS address.
Disk Cache
Setting
Displays if the disk cache is enabled or disabled.
Available Space Displays the free space of the respective physical disk.
Used Space Displays the used space of the respective physical disk.
Disk Protocol Displays if the protocol of the physical disks.
Media Type Displays the type of disk selected.
Disk Sector Size Displays the type of sector size enabled.
Negotiated
Physical Disk
Transfer speed
Displays the speed at which the data is transferred.
Associated
Virtual Disks
Displays the virtual disk associated with the respective physical disk.
Dell Part Number Displays the part number of the physical disk.
Serial Number of
Disk
Displays the serial number of the physical disk.
Hardware Vendor Displays the information about the hardware vendor.
Manufacturing
Date
Displays the manufacturing date of the physical disk.
Managing the physical disk write cache policy
Perform the following procedure to enable the physical disk write cache policy:
1. Enter the Dell PERC S130 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S130 Configuration Utility on page 27.
2. Click Physical Disk Management → Select Physical Disk Operations.
3. Click the link Manage Physical Disk Properties.
The Manage Physical Disk Properties screen is displayed.
4. Choose from the following physical disk write cache policies:
Physical disk
write cache
policies
Description
Default The physical disk write cache feature is enabled for:
● SSDs
● 3 Gbps HDDs
The physical disk write cache feature is disabled for 6 Gbps HDDs.
Enable The feature is enabled on the disk selected.
Disable The feature is disabled on the disk selected.
5. Click Apply to save the changes made.
NOTE:
Ensure that you change the physical disk write cache policy of a global hot spare disk after rebuild to the write
cache policy of the last configured virtual disk.
NOTE: In the View Virtual Disk Properties screen, ensure that the physical disk write cache setting is consistent
across the physical disk(s) associated with the virtual disk.
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