Users Guide

Table 13. View Physical Disk Properties (continued)
Manufacturing Date Displays the manufacturing date of the physical disk.
Associated Virtual Disks Displays the disk ID, RAID level, size and status of the associated virtual disk.
Figure 6. Physical Disk Properties Screen
Managing the physical disk write cache policy for SATA drives
Perform the following procedure to enable the physical disk write cache policy:
1. Enter the Dell PERC S140 Configuration Utility. See Entering the DELL PERC S140 Configuration Utility on page 27.
2. Click Physical Disk Management → Select Physical Disk Operations.
3. Click the link Manage Physical Disk Properties.
The Manage Physical Disk Properties screen is displayed.
4. Select one or multiple physical disk to apply the write cache policy.
5. Choose from the following physical disk write cache policies:
Physical disk
write cache
policies
Description
Default The physical disk write cache feature is enabled for:
● SSDs
● 3 Gbps HDDs
The physical disk write cache feature is disabled for 6 Gbps HDDs.
Enable The feature is enabled on the disk selected.
Disable The feature is disabled on the disk selected.
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