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Ssd drives and wear life – HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage User Manual

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Table 10 Description of items on the disk report

Description

Column

Corresponds to the physical slot or bay in the storage
system. This column also displays the Drive ID LED if it has
been activated.

Disk

Status is one of the following:

Status

Active—green (on and participating in RAID)

Active, Un-authorized—yellow (the controller detects a
communication problem with the drive, and cannot
control the drive LEDs. However, this does not affect
I/O to the drive.) This status occurs with the HP
StoreVirtual 4130, 4330, 4530, 4630 or 4730 storage
systems.

Uninitialized—yellow (is not part of an array)

Inactive—yellow (is part of an array, and on, but not
participating in RAID)

Marginal—yellow

Off or removed—red

Hot spare—green (for RAID configurations that support
hot spares)

Hot spare down—red

Drive health is one of the following:

Health

Normal

Marginal—indicating “replace as soon as convenient”

Predictive Failure—indicating “replace immediately”

Indicates if it is safe to hot-remove a disk.

Safe to Remove

The model of the disk.

Model

The serial number of the disk.

Serial Number

The class (type) of disk, for example, SATA 3.0 GB.

Class

Indicates the estimated wear life remaining for SSD drives.
Status is one of the following:

Wear Life Remaining (P4900 G2 only)

Normal—Green; drive is good

Aging—Yellow; drive is at 5% of remaining estimated
life

Degraded—Yellow; drive is at 2% of remaining
estimated life

Failing—Red; drive has estimated an 90 days of
remaining life

Worn out—Red; drive is at 0% of remaining estimated
life

Failed—Red; drive has failed and writes are not
permitted

The data storage capacity of the disk.

Capacity

SSD drives and wear life

The wear life statistics for SSD drives report drive usage so that drives can be replaced before they
wear out. See

“Replacing disks appendix” (page 248)

for more information.

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Configuring RAID and Managing Disks