Features; Physical Disk Power Management; Configured Spin Down Delay - Dell H310 User Manual

Features

Some of the features discussed for PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H310, H710, H710P, and H810 cards are:
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Physical Disk Power Management

• Types of Virtual Disk Initialization
• Consistency Checks
• Disk Roaming
• Fast Path
• Virtual Disk Migration
• Reconfiguration Of Virtual Disks
• Fault Tolerance
• Patrol Read
Physical Disk Power Management
Physical disk power management is a power saving feature of the PERC H310, H710, H710P, and H810 cards. The feature
allows disks to be spun down based on disk configuration and I/O activity. The feature is supported on all rotating SAS
and SATA disks and includes unconfigured, configured and
feature is disabled by default. The feature can be enabled in the Dell Open Manage Storage Management application
using the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RAID Configuration utility. For more information, see the Dell
OpenManage documentation at dell.com/support/manuals.
There are four power saving modes available:
No Power All power savings features are disabled.
default
Savings (
mode )
Balanced Power Spin down is enabled only for unconfigured and hot spare disks.
Savings
Maximum Power Spin down is enabled for configured, unconfigured and hot spare disks.
Savings
Customized All power savings features are customizable. You can specify a Quality of Service window
Power Savings during which the configured disks are excluded from spin-down.

Configured Spin Down Delay

NOTE: The Configured Spin Down Delay option is not applicable for the No Power Savings mode.
The amount of time to wait before spinning down disks can be set using Configured Spin Down Delay. The minimum
value of the timer is 30 minutes (default) and the maximum is one day. Disks are spun down automatically and spun up
when accessed. All disks are spun up on reboot.
hot-spare disks. The physical disk power management
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