Drive Carriers - Supermicro SuperServer SYS-521E-WR User Manual

Drive Carriers

Each drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. For
RAID configurations using a controller, the meaning of the status indicator is described in
the table below. For OS RAID or non-RAID configurations, some LED indications are not
supported, such as hot spare.
Color
Blue
Activity LED
Blue
Off
Red
Red
Red
Status LED
Red
Red
Green
Amber
Note: Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, see the Supermicro website,
supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SBB-HDDCompList.pdf.
Drive Carrier LED Indicator
Blinking Pattern
Solid On
Blinking
Solid On
Blinking at 1 Hz
Blinking with two blinks and one
stop at 1 Hz
On for five seconds, then off
Blinking at 4 Hz
Solid On
Blinking at 1 Hz
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Behavior for Device
Idle SAS/NVMe drive installed
I/O activity
Idle SATA drive installed
Failure of drive with VROC support
Rebuild drive with VROC support
Hot spare for drive with VROC support
Power on for drive with VROC support
Identify drive with VROC support
Safe to remove NVMe device
Do not remove NVMe device
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