Physical Disk tasks supported by the PERC software RAID controllers

Table 1. Physical Disk tasks supported on PERC S160 controller
Physical Disk Task Name PERC S160
Blink/Unblink Yes
Assign and Unassign Global Hot Spare Yes
Set Disk Cache Policy Yes
Export Log Yes
Convert to RAID capable disk No
Prepare to Remove Yes
NOTE:  For physical disks connected to software RAID controller, 512 MB of disk space is by default used by the controller for metadata.
NOTE: When you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk, the associated virtual disk is in failed state.
NOTE: The operation failed to complete message is displayed, if you perform the Prepare to Remove operation on the physical disk of Boot virtual disk or 2mounted virtual disk.
NOTE: The Prepare to Remove operation can be performed only on NVMe non-RAID drives.
NOTE: The Set Disk Cache Policy task is supported only on SATA drives and not on NVMe drives.