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198 Physical Disks or Physical Devices
Bus Protocol This property displays the technology that the physical disk or
device is using. Possible values are:
SCSI—Small Computer System Interface
SAS—Serial Attached SCSI
SATA—Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Media This property displays the media type of the physical disk or
device. The possible values are:
HDD—Hard Disk Drive. A HDD is a non-volatile storage
device which stores digitally-encoded data on rapidly rotating
platters with magnetic surfaces.
SSD—Solid State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that
uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unknown—Storage Management is unable to determine the
media type of the physical disk or device.
Used RAID Disk
Space
This property displays how much of the physical disk or device
space is being used by the virtual disks on the controller. This
property is Not Applicable for physical disks or devices
attached to non-RAID controllers.
In certain circumstances, the Used RAID Disk Space displays
a value of zero (0) even though a portion of the physical disk
or device is being used. This occurs when the used space is
0.005 GB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk
space rounds a figure of 0.005 GB or less to 0. Used disk space
that is between 0.006 GB and 0.009 GB is rounded up to 0.01
GB.
Available RAID
Disk Space
This property displays the amount of available space on the
disk. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks
attached to non-RAID controllers.
Hot Spare This property indicates whether the disk has been assigned as
a hot spare. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks
attached to non-RAID controllers.
Vendor ID This property displays the disk’s hardware vendor.
Product ID This property displays the disk’s product ID.
Revision This property displays the disk’s revision number.
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