Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 9 User’s Guide H330, H730, and H830

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Physical disk management (PD Mgmt)

The Physical Disk Management screen (PD Mgmt) displays physical disk information and action menus. The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You can sort the list of physical disks based on the headings. You can perform several actions on the physical disks, including the following:

Rebuilding physical disks
Performing the Replace Member operation
Setting the LED to blink
Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
Creating global hot spares
Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares

The PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in the following table.

Table 1. Information on the Physical Disk Management ScreenThe PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in the following table.
Information Displayed in Left Panel	Supported Information Displayed in Right Panel
Physical Disk: Disk ID Protocol type Capacity (GB) Physical Disk State Disk Group Vendor	Security Property of Physical Disk Encryption Capable Product ID Firmware Revision Disk Write Cache S.M.A.R.T state Physical Disk operation Max Device Link Rate Negotiated Link Rate Dell Certified Disk (512 or 4 KB sector drives)