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Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PRO

5.Click on the Physical Drives icon.

6.Click on the Physical Drive icon.

Enclosure Front View

The Enclosure Front View shows the enclosure location of the physical drive.

Physical Drive Information

Physical Drive Model – The drive manufacturer's identification.

Physical Drive Status – The functional status of this drive.

Functional means normal.

Disk is being rebuilt menas this drive is the Target Drive of the rebuild operation that is in progress.

Disk Offline means this drive is not available for use due to an error. See Rebuild Disk Array.

Physical Drive Size – The effective data storage capacity in gigabytes. This is total capacity, not available capacity.

Mode Setting – The performance level (data transfer speed) at which the physical drive is running. This statistic applies to Parallel ATA disk drives only. If a mode setting is reported for a Serial ATA drive, disregard it.

Assignment – Refers to assignable status of an individual disk drive.

Free means available for use in a Disk Array.

Assigned means this drive currently belongs to a Disk Array.

Spare means this drive is designated as a Hot Spare.

Error means this drive is not available due to a problem.

ID – The Controller channel ID number to which this physical drive is attached. If you have a drive on a channel but it does not appear in WebPAM, there is a bad connection.

S.M.A.R.T. Status – Refers to Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, a form of predictive failure analysis that examines disk drive behavior for indications of a coming failure.

Healthy means there are no indications of trouble.

Alert means there have been indications that the disk drive could fail soon. If you see an alert, back up your data, then remove and test the disk drive.

Disabled means the SMART has been disabled or is not a feature of this disk drive. You must enable SMART function for each Logical Drive.

Firmware Version – This refers to the version of the firmware on the disk drive.

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