Disabling T10 Pi; Secure Firmware Update; Improved Raid 10 Configuration; 4Kb Block Size Disk Drives - Dell PowerEdge H730P User Manual

Disabling T10 PI

To disable T10 PI:
1. Press <F2>.
The list of available actions is displayed.
2. Click Disable Data Protection.

Secure Firmware Update

This feature provides a cryptographic method of updating the firmware using RSA encryption-decryption
algorithm.
Only Dell certified firmware is supported on your PERC controller.

Improved RAID 10 Configuration

RAID 10 configuration has been simplified for easier management and deployment. Disks are selected in
mirrored pairs, and the user is no longer required to select the number of disks per span.
NOTE: An even number of drives is required to create RAID 10 virtual disks.

4KB Block Size Disk Drives

PERC H730P card supports 4KB block size disk drives, which enables you to efficiently use the storage
space.
NOTE: Mixing 512–byte native and 512–byte emulated drives in a virtual disk is allowed. But, mixing
512–byte and 4KB native block size drives in a virtual disk is not allowed.

Physical Disk Power Management

Physical disk power management is a power-saving feature of the PERC H730P card. The feature allows
disks to be spun down based on disk configuration and I/O activity. The feature is supported on all
rotating SAS and SATA disks and includes unconfigured, configured, and hot-spare disks. The physical
disk power management feature is disabled by default. The feature can be enabled in the Dell Open
Manage Storage Management application or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) RAID
Configuration utility. For more information, see the Dell OpenManage documentation at dell.com/
support/manuals.
There are four power-saving modes:
No Power All power savings features are disabled.
Savings
(default mode)
Balanced Spin down is enabled only for unconfigured and hot spare disks.
Power Savings
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