HPE SmartDrive LED

HPE SmartDrives are the latest Hewlett Packard Enterprise drive technology, and they are supported beginning with ProLiant Gen8 servers and server blades. The SmartDrive is not supported on earlier generation servers and server blades. Identify a SmartDrive by its carrier, shown in the following illustration.

When a drive is configured as a part of an array and connected to a powered-up controller, the drive LEDs indicate the condition of the drive.

Drive status LED
Item LED Status Definition
1 Locate1 Solid blue The drive is being identified by a host application.
    Flashing blue The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an update.
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.
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The blue Locate LED is behind the release lever and is visible when illuminated.