Item LED Status Definition
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 LED is flashing. The Do not
remove LED flashes to indicate that the device is still in use. Removing the NVMe SSD before the
device has completed and ceased signal/traffic flow can cause loss of data.
Item Description Status
1 Locate LED
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 LED
Rotating green = Drive activity
Off = No drive activity
Table Continued
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