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Chapter 3: Maintenance and Component Installation
Two 3.5" Hard Drives
and No Expansion Card
Hard Drive Carrier Indicators
Each hard drive carrier has two LED indicators: an activity indicator and a status indicator. In
RAID configurations, the status indicator lights to indicate the status of the drive. In non-RAID
configurations, the status indicator remains off. See the table below for details.
Hard Drive Carrier LED Indicators
LED
State/Condition
Indication
Green
Blinking
Indicates drive activity
Red
Solid on
Drive failure
Note:
Enterprise level hard disk drives are recommended for use in Supermicro chassis and
servers. For information on recommended HDDs, visit the Supermicro website at
http://www.
supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SBB-HDDCompList.pdf