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The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed in the BIOS Configuration Utility window.
If there is more than one controller, the main menu screen is displayed. Select a controller, and press
<Enter>. The Virtual Disk Management screen is displayed for the selected controller.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight the PERC 9 series of cards or Disk Group # .
NOTE: The H330 PERC card does not support the T10 PI feature.
3. Press <F2>.
The list of available actions is displayed.
4. Click Enable Data Protection.
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.
NOTE: An even number of drives is required to create RAID 10 virtual disks.
4KB block size disk drives
PERC H330, H730, H730P and H830 cards support 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 9 series cards. 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.
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