Drives
Basic Drive LED definitions
SFF basic drive carrier
Item
LED
1
Fault or Locate
2
Online or Activity
Status
Definition
Solid amber
This drive has failed, is unsupported, or is invalid.
Solid blue
A management application has identified the drive and the drive
is operating normally.
Flashing amber or
The drive has failed, or a predictive failure alert has
blue (1 flash per
been received for this drive. A management application
second)
has also identified the drive.
Flashing amber (1
A predictive failure alert has been received for this drive.
flash per second)
Replace the drive as soon as possible.
Off
The drive is operating normally.
Solid green
The drive is online and not active.
Flashing green (1
The drive is doing one of the following:
flash per second)
•
•
•
•
•
•
Flashing green (4
The drive is operating normally.
flashes per
second)
Off
The drive is not configured or is a spare drive.
Rebuilding or performing a RAID
Performing a stripe size migration
Performing a capacity expansion
Performing a logical drive extension
Erasing
Activating a replacement drive
Component identification
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