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Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 11 User’s Guide PERC H755, H750, H355, and H350 Controller Series

View physical disk properties

Steps

  1. Enter the Dell PERC 11 Configuration Utility. See Navigate to Dell PERC 11 configuration utility.
  2. Click Main Menu > Physical Disk Management.
    All the physical disks that are associated with the RAID controller are displayed.
  3. To view the properties, click the physical disk.
    Table 1. Physical disk propertiesThe following table provides physical disk properties.
    Option Description
    Operation The list of operations you can perform on the selected physical disk. The options are:
    • Blink
    • Unblink
    • Assign global hot spare
    • Cryptographic erase
    • Convert to non–RAID disk
    Device ID Unique identifier of the physical disk.
    Backplane ID Backplane ID in which the physical disk is located in for PERC H755 adapter, PERC H755 front SAS, PERC H755N front NVMe, PERC H750 adapter SAS, PERC H755 MX adapter, PERC H355 adapter SAS, PERC H355 front SAS, PERC H350 adapter SAS , and PERC H350 Mini Monolithic SAS
    Slot number The drive bay in which the physical disk is located for the corresponding backplane or enclosure to which the controller is connected.
    Status Status of the physical disk.
    Size Size of the physical disk.
    Type Type of the physical disk.
    Model Model of the physical disk.
    Serial number Serial of the physical disk.
  4. To view additional properties of the physical disk, click Advanced....
    Table 2. Advanced physical disk propertiesThe following table provides advanced physical disk properties.
    Option Description
    Logical sector size Logical sector size of the selected physical disk
    Physical sector size Physical sector size of the selected physical disk
    SMART status SMART status of a physical disk
    Revision Firmware version of the physical disk
    WWID Unique identifier used to identify the device
    Multipath Multipath of the controller
    Physical disk power state Power condition (On or Power Save) of the physical disk
    Disk cache setting Disk cache setting
    NOTE:Disk cache for SATA Gen3 drives is disabled by default.
    Disk protocol Type of hard disk used
    Device speed Speed of the physical disk
    Negotiated link speed Negotiated link speed of the device
    PCIe capable link width N/A for SAS/SATA drives
    PCIe negotiated link width N/A for SAS/SATA drives
    Encryption capable Encryption capability of the physical disk
    Encryption supported Encryption capability enabled at the controller level
    Secured Security status of the physical disk
    Cryptographic erase capable Cryptographic erase capability of the physical disk

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