Users Guide

Table 14. Physical disk properties (continued)

Option Description

Size Size of the physical disk.

Type Type of the physical disk.

Model Model of the physical disk.

Part number Part number of the physical disk.

Serial number Serial of the physical disk.

Manufacturing date Date on which the physical disk has been manufactured.

Associated virtual disks Virtual disks associated with the physical disk.

4. Click Advanced....

You can view the following additional properties of the physical disk:

Table 15. Advanced physical disk properties

Option Description

Logical sector size Logical sector size of the selected physical disk.

Physical sector size Physical sector size of the selected physical disk.

SMART status SMART status of a physical disk.

Revision Firmware version of the physical disk.

SAS address SAS address of the physical disk.

Physical disk power state Power condition (On or Power Save) of the physical disk.

Disk cache settings Disk cache settings.

NOTE: Disk cache for SATA Gen3 drives is disabled by default.

Hard disk drive RPM RPM of the hard drive.

Available space Available size of the physical disk.

Used space Configured space of the physical disk.

Disk protocol Type of hard disk used.

Device speed Speed of the physical disk.

Negotiated link speed Negotiated link speed of the device.

Encryption capable Encryption capability of the physical disk.

Secured Security status of the physical disk.

Cryptographic erase capable Cryptographic erase capability of the physical disk.

NOTE: When you select the Patrol Read option in the Advanced... section, an error message may be displayed. The

error message can be safely ignored.

Cryptographic erase

NOTE: The Cryptographic erase feature is supported only on ISE and SED drives.

1. Enter the Dell PERC 10 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility.

2. Click Main Menu > Physical Disk Management.

The list of physical disks is displayed.

3. Select a physical disk.

4. From the Operations drop-down menu, select Cryptographic Erase.

HII configuration utility