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

View physical disk properties

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