Disk drive LEDs
Figure 9: Disk drive LEDs (in servers)
1. Drive 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. Disk activity ring LED Off = No drive activity
Rotating green = Drive activity
3. Do not remove LED Solid white = Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive
causes one or more of the logical drives to fail.
Off = Removing the drive will not cause a logical drive to fail.
4. Drive status LED Off = The drive is not configured by a RAID controller.
Solid green = The drive is a member of one or more logical
drives.
Flashing green = The drive is rebuilding or performing a
RAID migration, stripe size migration, capacity expansion, or
logical drive extension.
Flashing amber/green = The drive is a member of one or
more logical drives and predicts the hard drive will fail.
Flashing amber = The drive is not configured and predicts
the hard drive will fail.
Solid amber = The drive has failed
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