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View Physical Drive

View Physical Drive presents the characteristics of the selected physical device. The title of the view window that is displayed varies, depending on the device selected.

  • For a disk drive Physical Device Icon, it is called View Physical Device window.

  • For a tape drive Tape Drive Icon, it is called View Tape window.
  • For a CD-ROM CD-ROM Icon, it is called View CD-ROM window.
  • You can access one of these windows by double-clicking the physical device in the main window, or by selecting the device and selecting View > View Physical Device.

Associated Partitions - displayed only when the selected device is associated with one or more logical partitions.

View - active when there are associated logical drives.

Remaining Size - remaining unused capacity when part of a disk drive's capacity has been used in one or more logical views.

RPM - the revolutions per minute of the physical drive.

SMART Drive - indicates whether the drive has predictive failure capability.

You can also select the physical drive and select View. The View Logical Drive window is displayed without the table.

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