Viewing Drive Properties

Select a drive from an array in the Controller dashboard to view its properties.

Table 1. Drive Properties
Property Description
Status The current status of the drive.
Exposed As To differentiate the drives, the drives are exposed as one of the following:
  • JBOD
  • PHYSICAL-DEVICE
Product ID The product ID of the drive.
Vendor ID The ID assigned to the drive by the vendor.
Serial Number The serial number of the drive.
Shield Counter The shield counter value.
Device ID The device ID of the drive that is assigned by the manufacturer.
Usable Capacity The usable storage capacity, based on the RAID level used.
Raw Capacity The actual full capacity of the drive before any coercion mode is applied to reduce the capacity.
General Properties
SAS Address 0 The World Wide Name (WWN) for the drive.
SAS Address 1 The WWN for the drive.
Negotiated Link Speed The negotiated link speed for data transfer to and from the drive.
Drive Speed The speed of the drive.
Temperature The temperature of the drive.
Revision Level The revision level of the drive’s firmware.
Power Status The power status displays the following status:
  • On – when a drive is spun up.

Native Command Queueing Indicates if the Native Command Queueing (NCQ) function is enabled. NCQ enables the drive to queue the I/O requests and reorder them for efficiency.
Sector Size The size of the sector of the drive. The possible options are 4 KB or 512 KB.
Enclosure Properties
Enclosure ID The ID of the enclosure in which the drive is located.
Enclosure Location The port number of the enclosure to which the drive is connected.