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.
Drive guidelines
CAUTION: Do not remove an NVMe SSD from the drive bay while the Do Not Remove button LED is flashing. The
Do Not Remove button LED flashes to indicate the device is still in use. Removal of the NVMe SSD before the
device has completed and ceased signal/traffic flow can cause loss of data.
Depending on the configuration, this server supports SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives.
Observe the following general guidelines:
• The NVMe SSD is a PCIe bus device. Do not remove a device attached to a PCIe bus without allowing it to first
complete and cease the signal/traffic flow.
• The system automatically sets all device numbers.
• If only one hard drive is used, install it in the bay with the lowest device number.
• Drives must be the same capacity to provide the greatest storage space efficiency when drives are grouped into the
same drive array.
Component identification
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