Item LED Status Definition
1 Locate Solid blue The drive is being identified by a host
application.
Flashing blue The drive carrier firmware is being updated or
requires an update.
2 Activity ring Rotating green Drive activity.
Off No drive activity.
3 Do not remove Solid white Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive
causes one or more of the logical drives to fail.
Off Removing the drive does not cause a logical
drive to fail.
4 Drive status Solid green The drive is a member of one or more logical
drives.
Flashing green The drive is rebuilding or performing a RAID
migration, strip size migration, capacity
expansion, or logical drive extension, or is
erasing.
Flashing amber/
green
The drive is a member of one or more logical
drives and predicts the drive will fail.
Flashing amber The drive is not configured and predicts the
drive will fail.
Solid amber The drive has failed.
Off The drive is not configured by a RAID
controller.
NVMe SSD components
The NVMe SSD is a PCIe bus device. A device attached to a PCIe bus cannot be removed without allowing
the device and bus to complete and cease the signal/traffic flow.
CAUTION:
Do not remove an NVMe SSD from the drive bay while the Do Not Remove button LED is flashing. The
Do Not Remove button LED flashes to indicate the device is still in use. Removal of the NVMe SSD
before the device has completed and ceased signal/traffic flow can cause loss of data.
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