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Devices
Devices displays more detailed information regarding the actual physical drives that are connected to
the controller
The following properties are part of the Physical Devices Information
Model: model number of the physical drive
Capacity: total capacity of the physical drive
Revision: HDD device firmware revision number
Read Ahead* (Enable/Disable): enabling disk read ahead will speed up read operations by pre-
fetching data and loading it into RAM
Location: device location (example: 1/2 states controller 1, channel 2)
Write Cache* (Enable/Disable): enabling write cache will speed up write operations
Max Free: space on the disk that is not configured in an array
Status (Normal, Disabled, Critical): status of the disk
Serial Number: serial number of the physical disk
Unplug: safely ejects the selected disk, other methods of disk removal will trigger the alarm if
enabled
* Disk properties that can be adjusted.
Rescan
Clicking rescan will force the drivers to report the array status. For any disk(s) you hot plug into the
device; do not click rescan until all physical drives are detected and appear under Logical Device
Information.
