Seagate Seachest For Ssds User Guide

SEAGATE SeaChest for SSDs

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Introduction

This document describes how to use the SeaChest™ toolset for SSDs. SeaChest is a collection of command line interface (CLI) utilities for managing Seagate solid state drives (SSDs) on a system. The SeaChest toolset for SSDs is a subset of a larger tool called SeaChest Utilities.

SeaChest Utilities provides the following features and tools for managing SSDs:

• Displays SSD information such as model, capacity, temperature, serial number, and life remaining
• Monitors the health of SSDs
• Displays Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) attributes
• Performs firmware updates (Seagate only)
• Runs diagnostic commands
• Runs erase commands (Seagate only)
  NOTE SeaChest Utilities supports all SSDs; however the level of support for non-Seagate drives varies depending on each drive. Firmware update and erase commands, for example, are supported only for Seagate drives.
  NOTE For open source applications, you can find the link to the openSeaChest tools,here: https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest

Supported Operating Systems
SeaChest Utilities is supported on the following operating systems:

• Windows
  • Windows
  • Windows Server
• Linux
  • Ubuntu
  • RedHat
  • CentOS
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise
  • Tiny Core (which provides the USB-bootable tool)

Installation

To install the SeaChest SSD toolset in Windows, you must first install the larger library of tools called SeaChest Utilities.

1. Go to the SeaChest Utilities support page on the Seagate website: https://www.seagate.com/support/software/seachest/
2. Download SeaChest Utilities. The zip file downloads to your computer.
3. Right-click on the zip and Extract All. You should see the files shown below.
4. Open the folder for your operating system and click the SeaChest Utilities setup file.
5. Run the setup file and follow the instructions.
6. After installation, right-click the SeaChest Utilities desktop icon and pin to the taskbar.
7. Now you can open SeaChest from the taskbar.
8. When you click the SeaChest Utilities taskbar icon, a command window opens as shown here. This shows the short help output.
   NOTE If you open any SeaChest utility without any other command line options, you get the short help output. To get the long help output add the -h command.
9. Scroll down to the command prompt: C:\Program Files\Seagate\SeaChest>. You can enter commands here.

Conventions

The following table shows conventions used in this document.

Table 1 Conventions

Case Sensitivity
SeaChest SSD commands are cAsE SeNsiTiVe.

Getting Started

Use Device Handle with All Commands
With the exception of the -s [or] –scan commands, shown below, you must use the drive name (device handle) before all commands. This tells your system the drive or drives on which to perform an operation.
NOTE SeaChest Utilities tools are accessible from Linux and Windows operating systems. In this guide, examples are shown as they appear in Windows.

To access SeaChest Utilities and find your device handles, perform the following steps.

1. At the command prompt, enter:
2. You can now see the following information.
3. In this example, the handle or device name is PD0 for the only device in the system. You can enter a device handle before the command like this:
   NOTE In Linux, this same device handle looks like this -d /dev/sg0 or –device/dev/sg0

SSD-Customized Commands

Type the utility before each command, for example, SeaChest_Basics -V, –version

Table 2 SSD-Customized Commands

Basic Commands

Help
Help output for all SeaChest tools is unique to that tool as shown below. To see help information for SeaChest utilities use the -h [or] –help commands.

Table 3 Show System Properties

Show System Properties

The SeaChest command to show system properties is, -v, –version.

Table 4 Show System Properties

Show Drives
The SeaChest command to show drives on a system has two versions: -s, –scan.

NOTE You must start with a scan of the system to discover the device names. When you know the device handle names, you can enter further commands.

Table 5 Show Drives

 Device Information Commands

Show Drive Properties
NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

Now that you know the drive names, you can use the -i [or]–deviceInfo command to see drive properties. See below for command syntax. -d means device (or drive), PD<handle number> is the device name, and -i [or]–deviceInfo is the command.

Table 6 Show Drive Properties

Show Drive Security Capabilities

NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

PD<handle number> is the device handle and -i [or]-deviceInfo, –tcgInfo are the commands.

Table 7 Show Drive Security Capabilities

Power Commands

Show Drive Power Capabilities

NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

The utility is SeaChest_PowerControl. PD<handle number> is the device name and -i [or]–deviceInfo[or]–showEPCSettings [or]–showPowerConsumption are the commands.

Table 8 Show Drive Power Capabilities

Show Drive Power Mode

To show a drive’s power mode, use this command:

Table 9 Show Power Mode

Standby (SATA only)

NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

Table 10 Standby

Test Commands

Short Self Test

NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.
PD<handle number> is the device name, SeaChest_Basics is the utility, and -shortDST –poll is the command. This command provides active progress until the test completes. If –poll is omitted then you can go back later and check with –progress dst.

Table 11 Short Self Test

Self Test Progress
NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

PD<handle number> is the device name, SeaChest_Basics is the utility, and –progress dst is the command.

Table 12 Self Test Progress

Show Self Test Log

NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.

PD<handle number> is the device name, SeaChest_SMART is the utility, and –showDSTLog is the command.

Table 13 Show Self Test Log

SMART Commands

Show Drive SMART Properties
NOTE This command includes mixed-case letters.
PD<handle number> is the device name, SeaChest_Basics is the utility, and –smartAttributes [raw | analyzed] is the command.

Table 14 Show SMART Properties

Firmware Commands

Download Firmware

To download firmware for Seagate drives, use this command:

Table 15 Show Drive Properties

Security Erase
The Erase command is supported by Linux only.
SeaChest_Erase is the utility, and –secureErase is the command.

NOTE In Linux, the command is -d /dev/sg

Table 16 Show Drive Properties

Sanitize Erase

The Sanitize Erase command is supported by Linux only.
SeaChest_Erase is the utility.

Table 17 Show Drive Properties

Set Tunable Capacity Command

Set Tunable Capacity

SeaChest_Basics is the utility.

Table 18 Set Tunable Capacitys

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References

• The Leader in Mass Data Storage Solutions | Seagate US
• GitHub - Seagate/openSeaChest: Cross platform utilities useful for performing various operations on SATA, SAS, NVMe, and USB storage devices.
• SeaChest Utilities | Support Seagate US