SAS/SATA drive components and LEDs

Drive status LED
Item Description Status
1 Locate
  • 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 LED
  • Rotating green = Drive activity.
  • Off = No drive activity.
3 Do not remove LED
  • 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 LED
  • 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.
  • 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.