Viewing Physical Drive Properties

Select a physical drive from a drive group in the Controller dashboard to view its properties. The following figure and table describe the physical drive properties.

Table 12. Physical Drive Properties

Property	Description	MegaRAID	iMegaRAID	Initiator- Target
Status	The current status of the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Exposed As	To differentiate the physical drives, the drives are exposed as one of the following drive: JBOD PHYSICAL-DEVICE	Yes	Yes	Yes
Product ID	The product ID of the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vendor ID	The ID assigned to the physical drive by the vendor.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Serial Number	The serial number of the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shield Counter	The shield counter value.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Device ID	The device ID of the physical drive that is assigned by the manufacturer.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Usable Capacity	The usable storage capacity, based on the RAID level used.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Raw Capacity	The actual full capacity of the drive before any coercion mode is applied to reduce the capacity.	Yes	Yes	Yes
General Properties
SAS Address 0	The World Wide Name (WWN) for the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
SAS Address 1	The World Wide Name (WWN) for the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Negotiated Link Speed	The negotiated link speed for data transfer to and from the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drive Speed	The speed of the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Temperature	The temperature of the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Revision Level	The revision level of the physical drive’s firmware.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Power Status	The Power Status displays the following status: On- when a physical drive is spun up. Powersave- when a physical drive is spun down.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Native Command Queueing	Indicates if the Native Command Queueing function is enabled. Native Command Queueing enables the physical drive to queue the I/O requests and reorder them for efficiency.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Physical Sector Size	The size of the physical sector of the drive. The possible options are 4 KB or 512 KB.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enclosure Properties
Enclosure ID	The ID of the enclosure in which the physical drive is located.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enclosure Model	The type of enclosure in which the physical drive is located.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enclosure Location	The port number of the enclosure to which the physical drive is connected.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Enclosure Connector	Indicates the connector name, position, and size of the wide port. Wide ports: [Port 0-3 x4] - Single X4 wide port [Port 0-3 x4] & [Port 4-7 x4]- two X4 wide ports [Port 0-3 & Port 4-7 x8]- Single X8 wide port Single Drive [Port 0-3 x1]	Yes	Yes	Yes
Drive Security Properties
Full Disk EncryptionCapable	Indicates if disk encryption is enabled for the physical drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Secured	Indicates if the drive is secured.	Yes	Yes	Yes
Protection Information Properties
Protection Information	Indicates if the SCSI Protection Information type is active for the drive.	Yes	Yes	Yes