Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 10 User’s Guide PERC H345, H740P, H745, and H840 Series Controllers

Enabling physical disk power management

1. Enter the Dell PERC 10 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Controller Management > Advanced Controller Properties.
3. Click Physical Disk Power Management.
   The following list of options is displayed:

   • Time Interval for Spin Down — allows the user to specify the delay time before a disk is spun down.
   • Spin Down Hot Spare — allows you to enable or disable the spin down of hot spare disks.
   • Spin Down Unconfigured Good — spin down of un-configured disks.
4. Select the applicable options and click Apply Changes.
   The changes made are saved successfully.