Physical Disk tasks supported by the PERC software RAID controllers

Table 1. Physical Disk tasks supported by the PERC S140, PERC S150, and PERC S160 controllers
Physical Disk Task Name PERC S140 PERC S150 PERC S160
Blink/Unblink Yes Yes Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare Yes Yes Yes
Set Disk Cache Policy Yes Yes Yes
Export Log Yes Yes Yes
Convert to RAID capable disk Yes No No
Prepare to Remove Yes Yes Yes
NOTE:  For physical disks connected to software RAID controller, 512 MB of disk space is by default that is used by the controller for metadata.
NOTE: When you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk, the associated virtual disk is in a failed state.
NOTE: The operation failed to complete message is displayed, if you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk of Boot virtual disk or 2mounted virtual disk.
NOTE: The Prepare to Remove operation can be performed only on NVMe non-RAID drives.
NOTE: The Set Disk Cache Policy task is supported only on SATA drives and not on NVMe drives.