Users Guide
Property Denition
• Select as part of a virtual disk.
• Assign a hot spare.
• Choose as source or target for rebuild, copyback, replace member, or reconstruct.
• Spun down to save power.
• Select as a bootable device.
Certied Displays whether the physical disk or device is certied by your service provider.
Mirror Set ID Displays the mirror set ID of the member physical disk or device that has duplicated data
from another physical disk or device.
Capacity Displays the capacity of the disk.
Failure Predicted Displays whether the physical disk or device has received a SMART alert and is therefore
predicted to fail. For more information on SMART predictive failure analysis, see
Monitoring Disk Reliability On RAID Controllers. For information on replacing the physical
disk, see Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts.
You may also want to review the alert log to see whether the physical disk or device has
generated alerts pertaining to a SMART predictive failure. These alerts can assist you in
identifying the cause of the SMART alert. The following alerts may be generated in
response to a SMART alert:
• 2094
• 2106
• 2107
• 2108
• 2109
• 2110
• 2111
For information on alert messages, see the Server Administrator Messages Reference
Guide.
Progress Displays the progress of an operation that is being an operation is that is being
performed on the physical disk or device.
Encryption Capable Displays whether the physical disk or device is a Self-Encryption Disk (SED). The
possible values are Yes and No.
Encrypted Displays whether the physical disk or device is encrypted to the controller. The possible
values are Yes and No. For a non-SED, the value is N/A.
Bus Protocol Displays the technology that the physical disk or device is using. Possible values are:
• SAS
• SATA
Device Protocol Displays the device protocol of the physical device, such as Non-Volatile Memory
Express (NVMe).
Media Displays the media type of the physical disk or device. The possible values are:
• HDD — Hard Disk Drive. An HDD is a nonvolatile 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.
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