HPE Smart Carrier drive LEDs
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 • Rotating green = Drive activity.
• O = 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.
• O = 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 or performing a RAID migration
◦ Performing a strip size migration
◦ Performing a capacity expansion
◦ Performing a logical drive extension
◦ 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, is unsupported, or is
invalid.
• O = The drive is not configured by a RAID controller or a
spare drive.
Component identification
86