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1. 2 Temporarily move the drive to a NON Windows Linux SMART capable system 3 Issue the SMART EXECUTE OFF LINE IMMEDIATE D4h sub command 40h to reset the E4h workload timer attribute For example utilizing smartctl version 5 43 in a Linux OS where the drive under test is dev sda you can enter the following command line smartctl t vendor 0x40 dev sda a B htcaiees Paces spies W BOs wor eg 1s 20871 root Mi roce tocameost Downtoads Me Brow martmontocts 5 43 Mi aaea am a Figure 7 Resetting the SMART workload timer attribute 4 Return the drive to the Windows system where the workload will be measured 5 Run the workload to be evaluated for at least 60 minutes otherwise the drive wear attributes will not be available For this example the workload was run for about 22 hours lometer was used with a transfer size of 1MB with 100 random writes 6 Do a clean system power down Use either the ATA STANDBY IMMEDIATE command or leave the drive in the system for 10 minutes prior to shutting down the system This ensures that the drive will store all the drive wear SMART attributes to persistent memory within the drive 7 Return the drive to a non Windows Linux SMART capable system the same system environment of step 2 8 Read the drive wear attributes with the SMART READ DATA DOh command within 60 minutes after power up For example a drive in a system with smartctl version 5 432. Payscai onks a sod a Etan e l mi l bare Oo W Tred stes Protected Mode OF avk me Be je Pwo She Figure 3 Drive information page with predictive failure notice SMART Wear Out Indicator Not Supported Although the Intel SSD 320 Series drives log SMART attribute E9 Media Wear Out Indicator that captures the remaining life of the SSD as a percentage the OMSA Physical Disks page does not report this indicator OMSA Warnings NOTE Dell OpenManage Server Administrator OMSA will displays a yellow warning icon next to the Intel SSDs as noted below These warning icons do not indicate a current or pending problem with the drive They only appear because the drive is not recognized by 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 A Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Windows Internet Explorer la xj Go rk ixil p g Favorites jg A Del Openmanage Server Administrator m E o Page Safety Toos AY a a a Fri Ju 4 359 a Fr a 0 n stanin ai unit Q Fri location Main ancy state was 12 1001 F on LI Te V Trusted stes Protected Mode Off a gt 100 gt vs Aa fe PSO a Figure 4 OMSA system alerts page Storage Pages Within the Storage section of OMSA a yellow warning
3. captures the SMART Read Data by running the following command line smartctl A dev sda Note that the attribute ID are listed in decimal and not in Hex with the Attribute_NAME associated with Hard Drives M ongona Figure 8 Reading the SMART drive wear attributes The table below translates the data from smartctl to the Intel supported SMART Attributes Table 1 Converting SMART attribute values Attribute Decimal ID Hex ID Host Writes Count 225 Eth Timed Workload Media 226 E2h Wear Indicator Timed Workload Host Read 227 E3h Write Ratio Workload Timer 228 E4h Calculating Estimated Drive Wear 40 FE wes 09 15 1057 AM root Ini Raw Value 477242 635 1367 From the data collected using smartctl and the translated values you can then calculate the drive wear rate based on the given workload Using this example e Timed Workload Media Wear E2h has a raw value of 635 Therefore the percentage wear rate 635 1024 0 620 e Timed Workload Host Read Write Ratio E3h has a normalized value of 0 indicating that 0 of the operations were reads This corresponds with the 100 random write workload set in lometer e Workload Timer E4h has a raw value of 1367 Therefore the workload ran for 1367 minutes or 22 783 hours Given these values the media wear percentage rate for this workload can then be calculated 13 e Timed Workload Media Wear rate of 0 620 for every 1367 minutes W
4. Intel 320 Series SSD User s Information for Dell PowerEdge Products 2013 Dell Inc Trademarks used in this text Dell the Dell logo Dell Boomi Dell Precision OptiPlex Latitude PowerEdge PowerVault PowerConnect OpenManage EqualLogic Compellent KACE FlexAddress Force10 and Vostro are trademarks of Dell Inc Intel Pentium Xeon Core and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries AMD is a registered trademark and AMD Opteron AMD Phenom and AMD Sempron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows Windows Server Internet Explorer MS DOS Windows Vista and Active Directory are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and or other countries Novell and SUSE are registered trademarks of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates Citrix Xen XenServer and XenMotion are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix Systems Inc in the United States and or other countries VMware Virtual SMP vMotion vCenter and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States or other c
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6. agement 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 On the right side of the screen the SSD s Certified field will be set to No This is normal behavior and does not indicate an issue with the drive PERC H310 Adapter BIOS Configuration Utility 3 00 0020 PD Mgmt 00 01 02 SSD SATA 278 87 GB Online 00 ATA INTEL SSDSAZBW60 00 01 04 ATA 00 01 OF ATA pisk ID Figure 2 Controller BIOS configuration utility F2 278 87 GB Online 80 ATA 558 37 GB Online 00 ATA 0362 Disk default Error ON None 3 0Gb s 3 0Gb s No OMSA Drive Information Page SMART Predictive Failure Notification Support SMART trips for actual drive errors will be noted on the Physical Disks page of the OpenManage Server Administrator OMSA Storage subsection If such an error occurs Yes will be displayed in the Failure Predicted column of this page PE NE e Sosse e p Bet Oper manage Server amest f EL Som Pagen Satety nise Q Properties Intormanon Coahguraton a Physical Disks included in Virtual Disk 00 es Ae Cc Options gt GasicView gt Full View Physical Disks san Name aate Tans Bus Protocol Mesa Fahre Presaea
7. e Available Tasks vi Exeoule ATA SSO N 4PC10 e Available Tasks Execute SATA ssD N 4PC10 a Disk Online Available Tasks X Execute SATA SSD No 4PC10 zi of Eeg Yo v Trusted stes Protected Mode Off a gt 100 gt z m i a mn SOAM Osan Ga 2 a e EPRD ysm le 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 e From Intel as part of the Intel Solid State Drive Toolbox at http downloadcenter intel com e From http sourceforge net apps trac smartmontools wiki K NOTE Use the latest version of the Smartmon tool with the Intel 320 Series SSDs SMART Attributes The three primary attributes measured by the Smartmon tool are e Workload Timer ID E4h Time elapsed during the current workload e Timed Workload Host Reads Percentage ID E3h Percentage of I O operations that are read operations during the last workload timer loop e Timed Workload Media Wear Indicator ID E2h Drive wear during the last wear timer loop as a percentage of the maximum rated cycles NOTE You must run the workload to be evaluated for at least 60 minutes for these SMART drive attributes to regis
8. eaeeeeaes 14 Intel 320 SSD ATA Instant Secure Erase Functionality csccssssesscesesesesesescsececeeseeeceeecaeecaeacaeaeeseeeeaeesaneeaeees 14 2 Getting Help Contacting Dell Intel 320 Series SSD User s Information for Dell PowerEdge Products About This Document 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 e PowerEdge R820 e PowerEdge R720 e PowerEdge R720xd e PowerEdge R620 e PowerEdge T620 e PowerEdge R520 e PowerEdge R420 e PowerEdge R320 The following controllers are supported by these servers for use with the Intel SSDs e H710 e H710P e H310 Note that the H810 and S110 controllers are NOT qualified for use with the Intel SSDs 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers The following 11th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers are currently qualified as compatible with the Intel 320 Series SDDs e PowerEdge R910 e PowerEdge R815 e PowerEdge R715 e PowerEdge M915 The following controllers are supported by these servers for use with the Intel SSDs e 700 e 200 Note that the H800 S100 and 300 controllers are NOT qualified for use with the Intel SSDs NOTE Additional servers and controllers may be qualified in the
9. future as compatible with Intel 320 Series SDDs Contact your Dell sales representative for the latest information SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 1 Hard Drive Indicators 1 hard drive activity indicator green 2 hard drive status indicator green and amber Drive Activity Indicator NOTE The drive activity indicator behavior on an SSD is noticeably different than that of a hard disk drive When SSD 1 0 activity is occurring the indicator will switch on and remain on without blinking This is normal behavior SSD Drive Activity Condition Indicator Pattern Off No drive activity Steady green Drive I O activity occurring Drive Status Indicator The hard drive status indicator functions the same as that of a hard disk drive SSD Drive Status Condition Indicator Pattern RAID Only Blinks green two Identifying drive or preparing for removal times per second Off Drive ready for insertion or removal SSD Drive Status Indicator Pattern RAID Only Blinks green and off Blinks green slowly Steady green Blinks green three seconds and off six seconds Condition NOTE The drive status indicator remains off until all hard drives are initialized after the system is turned on Drives are not ready for insertion or removal during this time Predicted drive failure Drive rebuilding Drive online Rebuild aborted Controller BIOS Configuration Utility Behavior The BIOS Configuration Utility is a storage man
10. 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 gt Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Windows Internet Explorer Pal 1E3 Go v Pits Proce mons TRL v G Corteate Bro s x Aj Sa Favorites 5 e e z Del OpenManage Server Administ ator m B m Page Safety Tods Q Properties Health informationConfigurason Storage Dashboard me Options gt Set Hot Spare Protection Poll gt CheckAlen Instructions RAID Controller s Severity Component R E PER di 710 Available Tasks bad Exease Select Report bd Execute Min tual Disk Detaits Done O fib V Trusted stes Protected Mode Off a gt 100 gt pei amp e ERO ieo E Figure 5 Controller page gt Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Windows Internet Explorer 18 xj Go tips winSogbeQung8 L3 L senye OMS AS tant mode some aie 2581052001 Yi W Gerbfieate fim 2 y x f Ajs wa Favorites Gg ve A Del OpenManage Server Administrator A E mo Page gt Safety Tods bel OpenManage Server Admnastrater https DANIS Properties Information Configuration Pnysical VISKS On Controler PERG H 10H MINI Cn gf al Options gt Bas Status Name State Tasks Bus Protocol Media Failure Predicted Revisic A isk nine Available Tasks X Estote ATA No 4PC10 Available Tasks Exeoule ATA SSO N 4PC1 Disk nlin
11. on keys and erases NAND e Enhanced secure erase Generates new keys and clears NAND The PERC solution only supports the crypto erase function on TCG compliant Enterprise SED Self Encrypting Drive drives When an Intel 320 drive is connected to a PERC there is an incompatibility between PERC TCG method of crypto erase and Intel 320 supported non TCG based ATA instant secure erase As a result the instant secure erase functionality can t be used with PERC based solution The only way to run instant ATA secure ease and use Intel 320 drive secure wiping feature is to connect the drives directly into the motherboard chipset s ATA port and issue secure erase command Intel provides a free utility Intel SSD Toolbox to instant secure erase the drive which you can download from www intel com go ssdtoolbox Getting Help Contacting Dell K NOTE If you do not have an active Internet connection you can find contact information on your purchase invoice packing slip bill or Dell product catalog Dell provides several online and telephone based support and service options Availability varies by country and product and some services may not be available in your area To contact Dell for sales technical support or customer service issues 1 2 3 4 Visit dell com support Select your support category Verify your country or region in the Choose a Country Region drop down menu at the top of page Select the appropriate
12. orkload 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 e 100 653 153 e In this exaggerated case the drive will use 100 of wear in 153 days NOTE This sample usage case is an exaggerated workload of 100 writes The wear rate and related values for this device s intended use in read intensive environments will be notably different with the wear rates markedly lower The above workload was used in this case to demonstrate the procedure and calculations Adjusting SSD Usable Capacity to Improve Drive Performance Some SSD performance gains can be realized in random write performance and endurance by configuring a small reduction in the drive s usable capacity Intel provides details on this option in nte Solid State Drive 320 Series in Server Storage Applications at http www intel com NOTE If you wish to implement this feature you must do so before the drive is initialized or written to in any way After the drive contents are altered secure erasure of the drive to change its usable capacity is not supported Intel 320 SSD ATA Instant Secure Erase Functionality Intel 320 SSDs support cryptography based Instant ATA secure erase functionality The Intel 320 SSD Instant ATA secure ease feature is non TCG Trusted Computing Group based It supports two modes of crypto secure erase e Normal secure erase Clears the encrypti
13. ountries IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2012 08 Rev A00 Contents 1 Intel 320 Series SSD User s Information for Dell PowerEdge Producte 00s0 5 About This DOCUM ON e a a a aaa a KO kal PA lk po e a aa ii diana 5 Compatible Hara E asc aki tenets s kak n w ke ke ka ki a da ab k ka bu ki beatae dd dak take k s de anba aden 5 12th Generation PowerEdge Servers ssscsccseccssssssssesesesescsesesececsesescecsescseceeecaeseseeesseecaeacaeseaesesanssacaeaeseeesaeanees 5 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers csscsccssccsssssssseseseseecscseeceeseseseseseseseceeecaeseseeesaeecaeecaeeeaesesaeasacaceeseeesaeasees 5 SSD Hard Drive Indicator Patterns cscsssscssesecesecsesseseseeceesceeseseseeeceeaeseaeseeeseeecaeecaessaeaeaeseeeseeaeaeeeaesecaeesanaseeeeaees 6 Drive Activity Indicator avwe vote siwo pwan vid dwa k oak od dekad god dwa aa de ak kek ma ma EN sardetsvevonealseieuiveurerveateatecdeas 6 Drive Status Indicator Controller BIOS Configuration Utility Behavior OMSA Drive Information Page sis aia randr san ben ak ola k dati tava kan Gist ideas and araa eiae el ae aata 7 SMART Predictive Failure Notification SUPPOFt scscscsesssessesssescseecseecsesceeeeeeeseeeseseacseseaeeeeeceeseeesanesaeaeeeeeees 7 SMART Wear Out Indicator Not Supported ccccccssesssescesssesceesceescseseeseecaeecaeseseacseceeecaeaeaeseaeecaeesasseaeee
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15. ter Smartmon Tool and smartctl Resources For details of the Smartmon tool the smartctl utility and SMART attributes refer to e Intel Solid State Drive 320 Series in Server Storage Applications and Intel Solid State Drive 320 Series Enterprise Server Storage Application Product Specification Addendum available at http downloadcenter intel com e smartctl man page available at http smartmontools sourceforge net man smartctl 8 html Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool Linux RAID Environments Note that the specific options in this example may not apply to your system For details of the smartctl commands and options see the resources in Smartmon Tool and smartctl Resources 1 Find the OS name for the storage device or RAID array 2 Find device ID s for the device or array in step 1 using MegaCli using the following command MegaCli64 pdlist aAll 3 For each device ID use the following command smartctl a d sat megaraid N dev sdX Arepresents the device ID identified in step 2 Xrepresents the storage device or RAID array identified in step 1 4 In the smartctl output Attribute ID 233 Media Wearout Indicator will indicate the remaining drive life as a percentage under the VALUE column For example a value of 85 means 85 of the drive s life remains Monitoring Drive Wear Example Using the Smartmon Tool Non RAID Environments Note that the specific options in
16. this example may not apply to your system For details of the smartctl commands and options see the resources in Smartmon Tool and smartctl Resources 1 Find the OS name for the storage device 2 For each device ID use the following command smartctl a d sat dev sdX Xrepresents the storage device or RAID array identified in step 1 3 In the smartctl output Attribute ID 233 Media Wearout Indicator will indicate the remaining drive life as a percentage under the VALUE column For example a value of 85 means 85 of the drive s life remains Using the Smartmon Tool to Estimate Wear Usage Windows RAID Environments ONLY NOTE In a Windows RAID environment an individual SSD device cannot be directly accessed behind the LUN Logical Unit or RAID configured set so it must be temporarily moved to a NON Windows Linux SMART capable system during portions of the procedure as noted below in order to issue SMART commands to the drive You can use the following procedure to estimate wear in a Windows RAID production or application environment This procedure applies to Linux and Windows operating systems and RAID or non RAID environments 11 The high level steps of the procedure are as follows e Obtain a baseline wear indicator e Run the intended application for an extended time period e Re check the wear indicator e Calculate wear over time 1 Make sure DIPM is disabled to ensure that the data collected is accurate
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