User Manual

viewing physiCAl drive informAtion

To view physical drive information:

1. Click the Physical Drive icon.

2. Mouse-over the physical drive you want then click the View button.

Physical drive information includes:

3. Click the Advanced Information tab.

Advanced information for physical drives includes:

Items with an asterisk (*) are adjustable under “Viewing Physical Drive Statistics” on page 50.

Items with two asterisks (**) are adjustable under “MakingPDMSettings”onpage45.

4. Click the X icon to close the information panel.

• Write Cache – Enabled or disabled *

• Read Look Ahead Cache – Enabled or disabled *

• SMART Feature Set – Yes or No

• SMART Self Test – Yes or No

• SMART Error Logging – Yes or No

• Command Queuing Support – TCQ or NCQ

• Command Queuing – Enabled or disabled *

• Queue Depth – Number of commands

• Power Saving Level – Supported by this drive

• Medium Error Threshold **

• Drive Temperature

• Drive Reference Temperature

• Physical Drive ID – ID number of the physical

drive

• Location – Enclosure number and slot number

• Alias – If assigned

• Physical Capacity – Total capacity in GB

• CongurableCapacity– Usable capacity in GB

• Used Capacity – Capacity actually used in GB

• Block Size – Typically 512 Bytes

• Operational Status – OK is normal, Stale, PFA,

Dead

• CongurationStatus– Array number and

sequence number, spare number

• Model Number – Make and model of the drive

• Drive Interface –SATA1.5Gb/sor3Gb/s

• Serial Number – Serial number of the drive

• Firmware Version – Firmware version on the

drive

• Protocol Version – ATA/ATAPI protocol version

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