Product manual

Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe

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Managing Physical Drives

Physical drive management includes:

• Viewing a List of Physical Drives (below)

• Viewing Physical Drive Information (page 141)

• Making Global Physical Drive Settings (page 143)

• Making Individual Physical Drive Settings (page 144)

• Viewing Physical Drive Statistics (page 144)

• Viewing Physical Drive SMART Log Information (page 145)

• Saving the Physical Drive SMART Log (page 145)

• Locating a Physical Drive (page 146)

• Forcing a Physical Drive Offline (page 146)

• Clearing a Stale or a PFA Condition (page 147)

• Updating Firmware on a Physical Drive (page 147)

• Managing Physical Drive Problems, see “Physical Drive Problems” on

page 399

Viewing a List of Physical Drives

To view a list of physical drives in the RAID system:

1. Click the Device tab.

2. Click the Physical Drive icon.

The list of enclosures and the physical drives inside them displays.

Physical drive information includes:

• ID – ID number of the physical drive

• Status – Green check , yellow ! , and red X icons

• Model – Make and model of the drive

• Type – SAS or SATA, HDD or SSD

• Location – Enclosure number and slot number

• Configuration – Array number and sequence number, spare number,

unconfigured, or stale configuration

• Capacity – In GB

Viewing Physical Drive Information

To view physical drive information:

1. Click the Device tab.