Managing Physical Drives - Asus DS300j G2 Series User Manual

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Physical drive management includes:
For physical disk troubleshooting, see "Physical Drive Problems" on page <?>.
• Viewing a List of Physical Drives (below)
• Viewing Physical Drive Information (below)
• "Making Global Physical Drive Settings" on page 88
• "Making Individual Physical Drive Settings" on page 88
• "Viewing Physical Drive Statistics" on page 88
• "Viewing Physical Drive SMART Log Information" on page 89
• "Saving the Physical Drive SMART Log" on page 89
• "Locating a Physical Drive" on page 89
• "Forcing a Physical Drive Offline" on page 90
• "Clearing a Stale or a PFA Condition" on page 90
• "Updating Firmware on a Physical Drive" on page 90
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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 !
• 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
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To view physical drive information:
1. Click the Device tab.
2. Click the Physical Drive icon.
3. Click the physical drive you want, then click the View button.
Physical drive information includes:
• Model - Model of ASUS Storage system
• Physical Drive ID – ID number
of the physical drive
• Location – Enclosure number and slot number
• Alias – If assigned
• Physical Capacity – Total capacity in GB
• Configurable 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
Advanced information for SATA physical drives includes:
• Write Cache – Enabled or disabled
• Read Look Ahead Cache – Enabled or disabled
• Read Cache Support – Yes or No
• SMART Feature Set – Yes or No
• SMART Self Test – Yes or No
• SMART Error Logging – Yes or No
• Command Queuing Support – TCQ or NCQ
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• Command Queuing – Enabled or disabled
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• Configuration – Array number and
sequence number, spare number,
Model – Make and model of the drive
• Drive Interface – SATA 1.5Gb/s
or 3Gb/s, SAS 3Gb/s or 6Gb/s
• Serial Number – Serial
number of the drive
• Firmware Version – Firmware
version on the drive
• Protocol Version – ATA/ATAPI
or SCSI protocol version
• Visible To – Controllers that can
access this physical drive
• Queue Depth - Number of commands
• Maximum Multiple DMA Mode Supported
• Maximum Ultra DMA Mode Supported
• DMA Mode
• Power Saving Level –
Enabled or disabled
• APM Support – Standby or Active
• Medium Error Threshold
• Drive Temperature
• Drive Reference Temperature