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- Page 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User's Information for Dell PowerEdge Products......5 ...............................5 About This Document ...............................5 Compatible Hardware .........................5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers .........................5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers ...........................6 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns ............................6 Drive Activity Indicator ............................6 Drive Status Indicator ......................7... -
Page 5: Intel 320 Series Ssd User's Information For Dell Poweredge Products
This document describes features and behaviors of the Intel 320 Series SSDs that you may encounter when using these drives in a Dell PowerEdge server. Compatible Hardware 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers The following 12th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers are currently qualified as compatible with the Intel 320 Series SDDs: • PowerEdge R820 •... -
Page 6: Ssd Hard Drive Indicator Patterns
Note that the H800, S100, and S300 controllers are NOT qualified for use with the Intel SSDs. NOTE: Additional servers and controllers may be qualified in the future as compatible with Intel 320 Series SDDs. Contact your Dell sales representative for the latest information. SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 1. -
Page 7: Controller Bios Configuration Utility Behavior
The BIOS Configuration Utility is a storage management application embedded on PowerEdge Raid Controller (PERC) cards that configures and maintains RAID disk groups and virtual disks. (For more information on the utility, see the Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller User’s Guide.) The utility's Physical Disk Management screen displays physical disk information and action menus. -
Page 8: Smart Wear Out Indicator Not Supported
OMSA as a “Dell-branded” drive. System Alerts Page A yellow warning icon and a“Non-Dell-supplied disk drive has been detected.” message will be displayed next to each Intel SSD drive. This is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive. -
Page 9: Storage Pages
Figure 4. OMSA system alerts page Storage Pages Within the Storage section of OMSA, a yellow warning icon will appear on the controller page, and the Physical Disks page. This is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive. Figure 5. -
Page 10: Wear Usage Monitoring
Figure 6. Physical disks page Wear Usage Monitoring The Smartmon Tool You can use a software tool — Smartmon — that monitors three Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes for SSDs. Smartmon includes a command line utility, smartctl, used to check these attributes. Obtaining the Smartmon Tool The Smartmon tool is available from the following sources: •... -
Page 11: Smartmon Tool And Smartctl Resources
NOTE: You must run the workload to be evaluated for at least 60 minutes for these SMART drive attributes to register. Smartmon Tool and smartctl Resources For details of the Smartmon tool, the smartctl utility, and SMART attributes, refer to: •... - Page 12 The high-level steps of the procedure are as follows: • Obtain a baseline wear indicator • Run the intended application for an extended time period • Re-check the wear indicator • Calculate wear over time 1. Make sure DIPM is disabled to ensure that the data collected is accurate. 2.
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Page 13: Calculating Estimated Drive Wear
– Note that the attribute ID# are listed in decimal and not in Hex with the Attribute_NAME associated with Hard Drives. Figure 8. Reading the SMART drive wear attributes The table below translates the data from smartctl to the Intel-supported SMART Attributes. Table 1. -
Page 14: Adjusting Ssd Usable Capacity To Improve Drive Performance
• Timed Workload Media Wear rate of 0.620% for every 1367 minutes: – Workload Media Wear Rate 0.027% per hour – Workload Media Wear Rate 0.653% per day Using the drive in this 100% workload example, the drive wears at .653% per day. •... -
Page 15: Getting Help
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