Viewing Drive Properties

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

Table 10. 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.