SAS/SATA drive components and LEDs
Item
Description
1
Locate
2
Activity ring LED
3
Do not remove LED
4
Drive status LED
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.
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Component identification
Status
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Solid blue = The drive is being identified by a host
application.
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Flashing blue = The drive carrier firmware is being
updated or requires an update.
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Rotating green = Drive activity.
•
Off = No drive activity.
•
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.
•
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.
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Flashing amber = The drive is not configured and
predicts the drive will fail.
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Solid amber = The drive has failed.
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Off = The drive is not configured by a RAID
controller.