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Section 3 Management
3.1.11
SLOT Details
The slots are the physical drive bays (or drive slots) located in the array itself. It's important to
note that the slot number does not necessarily correspond to the logical position of a drive
within a RAID. For example, you could have a chassis with 24 slots, but have (2) 12-drive
RAIDs defined, each of which, with a drive 0, 1, 2, etc., but there would only be one slot 1.
For each slot in the array, we see the slot number, drive manufacturer, model number,
firmware revision, capacity (in Gigabytes), the by-id device name, Linux short device name,
and current status of that slot. The SMART button to the left of each drive takes you to the
SMART details for that particular drive below. When you are finished and wish to return to the
NumaRAID Main GUI screen, you can left-click on the Return to NumaRAID GUI Main Page
link at the bottom of the Slot Details screen.
Modern hard drives have sensors within them that can log and detect problems, which can
cause a drive to prematurely fail. They also run self-diagnostics and record the results. The
output of SMART is different for a SATA drive versus a SAS drive. Here are some of the
things that SMART might show:
Device:
Shows the manufacturer, model number, and firmware revision for the device.
Serial Number:
Is the serial number: Note that the actual serial number is just the rightmost 8
characters. The rest of the string is a manufacturer-unique ID.
Device Type:
Shows the type of the device.
Transport protocol:
Connection type - i.e. SAS or SATA
Local Time:
Shows the time that this command was executed.
SMART Feature:
Indicates whether or not the drive supports the SMART feature, and
whether or not it is enabled.
Temperature Warning:
Indicates whether or not a temperature warning is enabled or
disabled.
