22 Component identification
SFF basic drive carrier
The SFF basic drive carrier supports hot-plug SAS, SATA, or U.3 NVMe.
Item LED State Definition
1 Fault/Locate Solid amber This drive has failed, is unsupported, or is invalid.
Solid blue The drive is operating normally and being identified
by a management application.
Flashing amber/blue
(1 flash per second)
Flashing amber (1
flash per second)
The drive has failed, or a predictive failure alert has
been received for this drive. The drive has also been
identified by a management application.
A predictive failure alert has been received for this
drive. Replace the drive as soon as possible.
Off The drive is operating normally and not being
identified by a management application.
2 Online/Activity Solid green The drive is online and has no activity.
Flashing green (1
flash per second)
The drive is doing one of the following:
• Rebuilding or performing a RAID
• Performing a stripe size migration
• Performing a capacity expansion
• Performing a logical drive extension
• Erasing
• Spare part activation
Flashing green (4
flashes per second)
The drive is operating normally and has activity.
Off The drive is not configured by a RAID controller or is
a spare drive.