Physical Drive Property Description: This screen displays the physical drive properties. Each field is described in the table below:

 

Field	Description
Firmware	This field gives the firmware version of the physical drive.
Status	This field gives the status of the physical drive. (online or offline)
Errors	This field gives the number of errors in the physical drive.
S.M.A.R.T. Status	This field gives the S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) status of the physical drive. The options for this are Disabled , OK, or Error. Disabled means S.M.A.R.T. is off and physical drive does not collect statistical data. OK means S.M.A.R.T. is on and no errors found. Error status means S.M.A.R.T. is on and some errors found, this is serious warning that drive has to be replaced.
Logical Drive	This field gives the logical drive information about this physical drive. (by drive letter or volume)
Capacity	This field gives the capacity of this physical drive.
Transfer Mode	This field gives the type of transfer mode used on this physical drive.
Part of Array	This field gives the part of the array that this physical drive belongs to. The RAID mode for a striped array (RAID 0) is called performance, and for a mirrored array (RAID 1) is called reliability.
Connection	This field gives the type of IDE connection that is used to connect this drive to the RAID controller. (primary or secondary, master or slave)
Model	This field gives the model number of the physical drive.
Serial Number	This field gives the serial number of the physical drive.