Item LED Status Definition
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 doing one of the following:
• Rebuilding
• Performing a RAID migration
• Performing a strip size migration
• Performing a capacity expansion
• Performing a logical drive extension
• Erasing
• Spare part activation
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 or a spare drive.
NVMe SSD LED definitions
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.
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