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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Hardware Components
Table 32 Advanced Drive Properties
5.7 Managing Hardware Components
When you select Hardware Components on the Main Menu, the Hardware Components menu appears, as shown
in the following figure.
Property Description
Certified Indicates whether the selected drive is vendor-certified. In some configurations you can only use
certified drives to create configurations.
Logical Sector Size The logical sector size of this drive. The possible options are 4 KB or 512 B.
Physical Sector Size The physical sector size of this drive. The possible options are 4 KB or 512 B.
SMART Status Indicates whether the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) feature is
enabled or disabled on the drive. The SMART feature monitors the internal performance of all
motors, heads, and drive electronics to detect predictable drive failures.
Revision The firmware revision level of the drive.
Connected Port The port on which the drive is connected.
Media Errors The number of physical errors detected on the disk media.
Predicted Fail Count A property indicating the number of errors that have been detected on the disk media.
SAS Address The World Wide Name (WWN) for the drive.
Emergency Spare Indicates whether the drive is commissioned as an emergency spare.
Commissioned Hot Spare Indicates if any hot spare drive (dedicated, global, or emergency) has actually been commissioned.
Cache Setting Indicates if the drive cache is enabled or disabled.
Available Size (GB) The available size of the drive, in GB.
Used Space The configured space of the drive, in GB.
Disk Protocol Indicates whether the drive uses SAS or SATA protocol.
Negotiated Drive Transfer
Speed
The negotiated link speed for data transfer to and from the drive.
Number of Connections The number of connection on the drive. SAS drives have two ports.
FDE Capable Indicates whether the drive is capable of encryption.
Secured Indicates whether the drive is secured.
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