Drive Details Window

The Drive Details window appears when you click a Port # on the Drive Information page.

This Drive Details window shows some Extra Drive Information, including NCQ and SATA Link Speed support, and the SMART data for the drive.

Extra Drive Information

NCQ Supported and NCQ Enabled. Some drives support NCQ (Native Command Queuing), which can result in increased performance for some applications, usually server-type applications. In order to make use of Native Command Queuing, the feature must be enabled at both the drive and the controller. Not all drives support NCQ. Only 9550SX and 9590SE controllers support NCQ.

The NCQ values in this window indicate whether the feature is supported and enabled at the drive. At the controller level, queuing is enabled or disabled for all drives in a unit on the Controller Settings Page.

SATA Link Supported and SATA Link Enabled. These fields show the fastest link speed that the disk drive supports and the current speed that the drive is running.

SMART Data

SMART data is displayed as hex values.

Consult your disk drive manufacturer for information on how to interpret the SMART data. The SMART data meaning varies by disk drive manufacturer and model.

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