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## Action: Properties 

Selecting Properties  provides more information about the drive, as shown in Figure 6-51. 

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You can find a short description of each drive property by hovering on it and then, clicking [?] . You can also display drive slot details by changing to the Drive Slot  tab. 

To get all available information about the particular drive, use the CLI command lsdrive  with drive ID as the parameter. To get slot information, use the lsenclosureslot  command. 

## 6.3.2 RAID and DRAID 

To use internal IBM SAN Volume Controller disks in storage pools, they must be joined into RAID arrays to form array MDisks. 

RAID provides the following key design goals: 

GLYPH<SM590000> Increased data reliability 

GLYPH<SM590000> Increased input/output (I/O) performance 

## Introduction to RAID technology 

RAID technology can provide better performance for data access, high availability for the data, or a combination of both. RAID levels define a trade-off between high availability, performance, and cost. 

