Physical Disk or Physical Device Properties

To view information about physical disks or physical device and perform physical disk or physical device tasks, use the Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties page.
Table 1. Physical Disk Properties
Property Definition
Status These icons represent the severity or health of the storage component.
  • NormalNormal/OK
  • WarningWarning/Non-critical
  • CriticalCritical/Failure/Error
For more information, see Storage Component Severity.
Power Status It displays the power status of the physical drives. The power status is not present in the Physical Disk for Virtual Disk page.
NOTE: Power status of any SSD showing as Not Applicable is an expected behavior in Storage Management.
Spun Down It indicates that the physical drive is in a spun down state. Only hot spare and unconfigured disk can be in a spun down state if there is no activity on the drive for a specified interval of time.
Transition It indicates that the physical drive is changing from the spun down state to spun up state.
Spun Up It indicates that the physical drive is in the spun up state.
Name It displays the name of the physical disk or device. The name includes of the connector number followed by the disk number. For all the disks which are not part of the virtual disk displays as non-Raid Disks for systems running on Enhanced HBA mode. Hot-plugged in disks also displays as NON-RAID disks.
State It displays the current state of the physical disk or device. Possible values are:
  • Ready—The physical disk or device is functioning normally. If the disk is attached to a RAID controller Ready indicates that the disk is available to be used by a virtual disk. When the physical disk or device is used in a virtual disk, the state changes to Online.
  • Online—Indicates that the physical disk is part of a virtual disk and is functioning normally. For more information, see Setting Online and Offline.
    NOTE: For all Non-RAID disks for systems running on Enhanced HBA mode has the status that is displayed as Online.
  • Degraded—The physical disk or device has encountered a failure and is operating in a Degraded state.
  • Failed—The physical disk or device has encountered a failure and is no longer functioning. This state is also displayed when a physical disk or device that is part of a redundant virtual disk is offline or deactivated. For more information, see Setting Online and Offline.
  • Offline—The physical disk or device has failed or contains dead segments.
  • Rebuilding—Data from a redundant virtual disk is being rebuilt onto the physical disk or device.
  • Incompatible—The physical disk or device is not suitable for a rebuild. The physical disk or device may be too small or it may be using an incompatible technology. For example, you cannot rebuild a SAS disk with a SATA disk or a SATA disk with a SAS disk.
  • Removed—The physical disk or device has been removed. This state applies only to physical disks that are part of a virtual disk.
  • Clear—The Clear task is being performed on the physical disk or device. A physical disk or device may also display the Clear state if the physical disk or device is a member of a virtual disk that is being slow initialized. For more information, see Performing a Clear Physical Disk and Cancel Clear and Slow and Fast Initialize.
  • SMART Alert Detected—A SMART alert (predictive failure) has been detected on the physical disk or device. The physical disk or device may fail and should be replaced. This state applies to physical disks or devices that are attached to non-RAID and M.2 device controllers.
  • Unknown—The physical disk or device has failed or is in an unusable state. At times, the physical disk or device can be returned to a usable state by performing a Format, Initialize, Slow, and Fast Initialize task. If the Format, Initialize, Slow, and Fast Initialize task does not appear on the physical disk or device drop-down menu, then this disk or device cannot be recovered.
  • Foreign—The physical disk has been moved from another controller and contains all or some portions of a virtual disk (foreign configuration). A physical disk or device that has lost communication with the controller due to a power loss, faulty cable or other failure event may also display the Foreign state. For more information, see Foreign Configuration Operations.
  • Unsupported—The physical disk or device is using an unsupported technology or it may not be certified by your service provider. The physical disk cannot be managed by Storage Management.
  • Replacing—A Replace Member Disk task is being performed on the physical disk or device. For more information, see Replacing a Member Disk and Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.
    NOTE: You can cancel the copying of data at any time during the execution of this task.
  • Non-RAID—Non-RAID disks are exposed to the operating system unlike unconfigured disks and enables usage of disk in direct pass-through mode. Maximum number of non-RAID disks that can be supported on controller are 64.
  • Unusable—Displays the unusable state for NVMe Init error drive.
You can perform the following tasks on the Non-RAID disks:
  • Identified as locate option.
  • Perform a blink or unblink operation.
  • Select the disk as a bootable device.
You cannot perform the following tasks on the disk:
  • Force disk offline or online.
  • 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.
Certified It displays whether the physical disk or device is certified by your service provider.
Mirror Set ID It displays the mirror set ID of the member physical disk or device that has duplicated data from another physical disk or device.
Capacity It displays the capacity of the disk.
Failure Predicted It displays whether the physical disk or device has received a SMART alert and is therefore predicted to fail. For more information about SMART predictive failure analysis, see Monitoring Disk Reliability on RAID controllers. For information about 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
  • 2109
For information about alert messages, see the Dell OpenManage Message Reference Guide.
Progress It displays the progress of an operation that is performed on the physical disk or device.
Encryption Capable It displays whether the physical disk or device is a Self-Encryption Disk (SED). The possible values are Yes and No.
Encryption Protocol It displays the protocol values. The possible values are TCG Opal SSC, TCG Enterprise SSC and Not Applicable.
Encrypted It 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 It displays the technology that the physical disk or device is using. Possible values are:
  • SAS
  • SATA
  • PCIe
Device Protocol It displays the device protocol of the physical device, such as Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).
NOTE: This attribute is not applicable for PERC and SWRAID.
Media It 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.
  • Unknown — Storage Management is unable to determine the media type of the physical disk or device.
Remaining Rated Write Endurance It displays information about the SSD renewal/replacement based on the number of write workloads. This field indicates the total remaining programs or erase-cycles available on the SSD, based on the cumulative specification of the total NAND (Negated AND or NOT AND) Flash chips in the SSD.
NOTE: This option is applicable to Micron PCIe SSDs, Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) PCIe SSDs, M.2 devices, and SAS/SATA SSDs.
Used RAID Disk Space It displays the physical disk or device space that is 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 even though a portion of the physical disk or device is being used. This occurs when the used space is 0.005 GiB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk space rounds a figure of 0.005 GiB or less to 0. Used disk space that is between 0.006 GiB and 0.009 GiB is rounded up to 0.01 GiB.
Available RAID Disk Space It displays the amount of available space on the disk. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks that are attached to non-RAID controllers.
Hot Spare Indicates whether the disk has been assigned as a hot spare. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks that are attached to non-RAID controllers.
Vendor ID It displays the hardware vendor of the disk.
NOTE: For NVMe drives, the Vendor ID value is displayed as the vendor name on Information/Configuration page. For SAS or SATA drives, the Vendor ID value is displayed as the Dell or Dell (tm) on Information/Configuration page.
Product ID It displays the product ID of the device.
Firmware Revision It displays the firmware version of the physical device.
Serial No. It displays the serial number of the disk.
Part Number It displays the Piece Part Identification (PPID) of the physical drive.
T10 Protection Information Capability It indicates whether the physical disk supports data integrity. The possible values are Yes and No.
NOTE: The T10 Protection Information Capability property is not displayed for PERC 12 and later controllers.
Logical Block Size It displays the logical block size of the physical disk. The possible options are 512B and 4KB.
PCIe Negotiated Link Speed It displays the current negotiated transfer speed of the physical device in GT/s.
PCIe Maximum Link Speed It displays the capable transfer speed of the physical device in GT/s.
Manufacture Day It displays the day of the month when the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture Week It displays the week of the year when the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture Year It displays the year when the physical disk was manufactured.
SAS Address It displays the SAS address of the physical disk. The SAS address is unique to each SAS disk.
NOTE: For NVMe drives the value is enumerated as NA.
PCIe Negotiated Link Width It displays the current negotiated link width of the physical device.
PCIe Maximum Link Width It displays the capable link width of the physical device.
Non-RAID Disk cache policy It displays the cache policy of the NON-RAID disk. For the Non-RAID physical disk the Non-RAID disk cache policy property can be changed to unchanged, enable, or disable.
NOTE: This feature is not displayed for PERC 10 and later controllers.
Available Spare It displays the available spare value set for all SSDs (NVMe drives). New disk has 100% spare which comes down as per the usage.
Cryptographic Erase Capable It displays yes if the cryptographic erase or sanitize cryptographic erase is supported or not.
WWN It displays the value for the physical device.
Error Description It displays description of the NVMe Init error drive.
Error Recoverable It displays if NVMe Init error drive is recoverable or not.
NOTE: The physical disk properties such as Manufacture Day, Manufacture Week, and Manufacture Year are displayed only for SAS drives.
NOTE:  RAID 0 virtual disk can create on predictive failure drive using AutoConfigure behavior, but same is not allowed while creating the virtual disk task.