Dell PERC13 and PERC12 User’s Guide PERC H975 Series and PERC H965 Series cards

View hard drive properties

1. Navigate to the PERC Configuration Utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Device Management > Logical Enclosure <enclosure number>. An enclosure number can be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on.
   The enclosure properties and all the hard drives that are associated with the selected enclosure are listed.
3. To view the properties of a PD, click the corresponding PD link.
   NOTE:Fields associated with features that are not applicable are hidden.

   Table 1. Physical disk Dashboard ViewThe Dashboard View page displays the properties of the selected hard drive:

   Option	Description
   Operation	The list of operations you can perform on the selected hard drive. The options are: Blink Unblink Assign global hot spare Cryptographic erase Convert to non–RAID disk Make Offline Replace Member
   Slot number	The PD slot to which the controller is connected.
   Persistent ID	Persistent ID of the hard drive.
   Status	Status of the hard drive.
   Size	Size of the hard drive.
   Type	Type of the hard drive.
   Model	Model of the hard drive.
   Part Number	Part number of the hard drive.
   Serial Number	Serial of the hard drive.
   Vendor	Name of the PD manufacturer.
   Firmware Revision Level	Indicates the version of the firmware that is installed on the PD.
   Manufacturing Date	Date of manufacture of the PD.
   Associated Virtual Disk	Indicates the VD that is associated with this PD.

4. To view additional properties of the hard drive, click Advanced.

   Table 2. Advanced hard drive propertiesThe following table provides advanced hard drive properties.

   Option	Description
   SMART status	SMART status of a physical disk
   SAS Address/WWID	WWN number of the device.
   Disk Power Status	Power condition (On or Power Save) of the hard drive
   Interface	Indicates the type of device that is used as an interface. For example, SAS or parallel SCSI.
   Capable Speed	Indicates the read/write speed capability of PD in Gbps.
   Negotiated Speed	Negotiated link speed of the device.
   Capable Link Width	Capable link width of the device.
   Negotiated Link Width	Negotiated link width of the device.
   Number of Connections	Indicates that the number of paths do the PD.
   Cryptographic erase capable	Cryptographic erase capability of the hard drive
   Encryption Capable	Indicates whether the drive can be encrypted.
   Supported Data Format	Indicated for NVMe drives only.
   Temperature (C)	Indicates the current temperature of the PD.

5. To view information about the Logical Unit Number (LUN) and NVMe Namespace properties of a PD, click Logical Unit/Namespace Information.

   Table 3. LUN/Namespace data of a hard driveThe following table provides advanced hard drive properties.

   Option	Description
   NVMe Namespace ID	Indicates LUN and Namespace properties
   Status	Indicates the working status of a LUN.
   Size	Indicates the maximum storage size of the LUN.
   Total Unconfigured Space	Total free space available for RAID array.
   Total Configured Space	Total used drive space for RAID array.
   Logical Sector Size	Supports either 512B or 4KiB types.
   Physical Sector Size	Supports either 512B or 4KiB types.
   Media Error Count	Number of physical errors detected on the PD.
   Other Error Count	Other errors are detected on the PD.
   Predictive Failure Count	Predictive errors detected on the PD.
   Firmware-Managed Security	Indicates whether the PD security is managed by the controller firmware.
   Current Write-Cache	Indicates whether the current write-cache mode of the PD is enabled.
   Default Write-Cache	The default write-cache mode of the PD.
   Secured	Indicates whether the PD is secured.
   Locked	Indicates whether the PD is locked.

   To view information about the next PD associated with the enclosure, click New Physical Disk.