Drive Carrier Indicators
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.
Color
Blue
Activity LED
Blue
Off
Red
Red
Status LED
Red
Red
Red
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
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Behavior for Device
Idle SAS/NVMe drive installed
I/O activity
Idle SATA drive installed or no drive
Drive failed
Rebuilding drive
Hot spare for drive
Power on for drive
Identifying drive