User`s guide

Chapter 6: Modifying Your Direct Attached Storage ● 79
To disable power management for a logical drive:
1 In the Logical Devices View, click the logical drive.
2 In the menu bar, select Actions , click Power settings, then click Disable .
The logical drive is updated with the new setting.
Re-Enabling Power Management for a Logical Drive
To re-enable the power management for a logical drive, repeat the steps in Disabling Power
Management for a Logical Drive on page 78, selecting Enable during Step 2.
Showing Devices Under Power Management
You can highlight the physical and logical drives under power management in the Adaptec
Storage Manager GUI. Logical drives are shown in green if power management is enabled.
Physical drives are shown in green if they are powered down (off).
In the menu bar, select View, then click Show Power Management. Adaptec Storage Manager
highlights the devices under power management in the Physical Devices View and Logical
Devices View:
To stop showing devices under power management, select View on the menu bar, then click
Show Power Management again.
Configuring the MaxIQ Cache
The MaxIQ cache is a global read cache pool. It uses the Solid State Drives (SSDs) in your
system as fast cache memory for read-intensive operations.
You can configure the MaxIQ cache only if you have one or more MaxIQ-compatible Solid
State Drives installed on the RAID controllers in your system.
Note:
For MaxIQ caching applications, you can use any Solid State Drive on the compatibility list,
including Adaptec MaxIQ SSDs and, with some controllers, select SSDs from other manufacturers.
See www.adaptec.com/compatibility for a list of MaxIQ-compatible Solid State Drives.
Adaptec Storage Manager assigns all compatible SSDs to the MaxIQ cache pool, by default. Use
the following procedures to add or remove SSDs, to configure the MaxIQ cache fetch rate, and
to enable MaxIQ caching for a logical drive.
To check the status of the SSDs in the MaxIQ pool, including wear-level and longevity
indicators, see Working with Solid State Drives on page 91. To check the MaxIQ cache statistics
for a logical drive, see Viewing Statistics on page 124.
Note:
Before you can enable MaxIQ caching for a logical drive, you must enable read caching; see
page 65.