Additional Devices Properties

If you select a device on a channel (other than an enclosure) and then select Properties, the following tabs are displayed: Drive Info, Capacity, S.M.A.R.T., and LED.

Drive Info

Capacity

The Capacity tab appears only for disk drives and when selected, displays a summary view listing the reserved, used, available, and total capacities of the drive.

The capacities are reported in both the number of 512-byte blocks (shown in both decimal and hexadecimal values) and capacity in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.

Selecting the detailed option shows information for all segments on the drive. In this view, the following information is displayed for each segment:

Type indicates how the segment is used. The first and last segments may be reserved. The controller may store the RAID signature at either the beginning or end of the drive.  The end of the drive is where the capacity is rounded down to the nearest 100 MB.

If this segment is a component of an array, type indicates the array level the segment is used in. If the segment is not used in an array and is not a reserved area, it is shown as available.

The detailed view defaults to displaying the numbers of the start and end blocks of each segment in decimal values. A drop-down list is provided to allow you to display these numbers in either hexadecimal or capacity.

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)

For hard disk drives that support the Self-Monitory Analysis and Reporting Technology (commonly known as S.M.A.R.T.) predictive failure reporting, this additional tab appears with the following entries:

LED

The tab appears on hard disk drives, and has two buttons, Blink LED and Unblink All.