Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products
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Contents 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products............................5 About This Document...............................................................................................................................................5 Compatible Hardware...............................................................................................................................................5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers...........................................
Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 1 About This Document This document describes features and behaviors of the Intel 320 Series SSDs that you may encounter when using these drives in a Dell PowerEdge server.
• H700 • H200 Note that the H800, S100, and S300 controllers are NOT qualified for use with the Intel SSDs. NOTE: Additional servers and controllers may be qualified in the future as compatible with Intel 320 Series SDDs. Contact your Dell sales representative for the latest information. SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 1. Hard-Drive Indicators 1. hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2.
SSD Drive Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off until all hard drives are initialized after the system is turned on. Drives are not ready for insertion or removal during this time.
Figure 3. Drive information page with predictive failure notice SMART Wear Out Indicator Not Supported Although the Intel SSD 320 Series drives log SMART attribute E9, Media Wear Out Indicator, that captures the remaining life of the SSD as a percentage, the OMSA Physical Disks page does not report this indicator. OMSA Warnings NOTE: Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) will displays a yellow warning icon next to the Intel SSDs, as noted below.
Figure 4. OMSA system alerts page Storage Pages Within the Storage section of OMSA, a yellow warning icon will appear on the controller page, and the Physical Disks page. This is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive. Figure 5.
Figure 6. Physical disks page Wear Usage Monitoring The Smartmon Tool You can use a software tool — Smartmon — that monitors three Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes for SSDs. Smartmon includes a command line utility, smartctl, used to check these attributes. Obtaining the Smartmon Tool The Smartmon tool is available from the following sources: • From Intel as part of the “Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox” at http://downloadcenter.intel.com. • From http://sourceforge.
NOTE: You must run the workload to be evaluated for at least 60 minutes for these SMART drive attributes to register. Smartmon Tool and smartctl Resources For details of the Smartmon tool, the smartctl utility, and SMART attributes, refer to: • “Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series in Server Storage Applications” and “Intel Solid-State Drive 320 Series Enterprise Server/Storage Application Product Specification Addendum,” available at http:// downloadcenter.intel.com.
The high-level steps of the procedure are as follows: • • • • Obtain a baseline wear indicator Run the intended application for an extended time period Re-check the wear indicator Calculate wear over time 1. Make sure DIPM is disabled to ensure that the data collected is accurate. 2. Temporarily move the drive to a NON-Windows (Linux) SMART-capable system. 3. Issue the SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE (D4h) sub-command 40h to reset the E4h (workload timer) attribute.
– Note that the attribute ID# are listed in decimal and not in Hex with the Attribute_NAME associated with Hard Drives. Figure 8. Reading the SMART drive wear attributes The table below translates the data from smartctl to the Intel-supported SMART Attributes. Table 1.
• Timed Workload Media Wear rate of 0.620% for every 1367 minutes: – Workload Media Wear Rate 0.027% per hour – Workload Media Wear Rate 0.653% per day Using the drive in this 100% workload example, the drive wears at .653% per day. • 100/.653 = 153 • In this exaggerated case, the drive will use 100% of wear in 153 days NOTE: This sample usage case is an exaggerated workload of 100% writes.
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