Online/activity | Fault/UID LED | Interpretation |
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Flashing regularly | Off | Do not remove the drive. Removing a drive may terminate the |
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| The drive is rebuilding, erasing, or it is part of an array that is |
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| undergoing capacity expansion or stripe migration. |
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Flashing irregularly | Amber, flashing | The drive is active, but a predictive failure alert has been received |
| regularly (1 Hz) | for this drive. Replace the drive as soon as possible. |
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Flashing irregularly | Off | The drive is active, and it is operating normally. |
Off | Steadily amber | A critical fault condition has been identified for this drive, and the |
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| controller has placed it offline. Replace the drive as soon as |
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Off | Amber, flashing | A predictive failure alert has been received for this drive. Replace |
| regularly (1 Hz) | the drive as soon as possible. |
Off | Off | The drive is offline, a spare, or not configured as part of an array. |
HP SmartDrives are the latest HP drive technology, and they are supported beginning with ProLiant Gen8 servers and server blades. The HP SmartDrive is not supported on earlier generation servers and server blades. Identify an HP SmartDrive by its carrier, shown in the following illustration.
When a drive is configured as a part of an array and connected to a
Item | LED | Status | Definition |
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1 | Locate | Solid blue | The drive is being identified by a host application. |
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| Flashing blue | The drive carrier firmware is being updated or requires an update. |
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2 | Activity ring | Rotating green | Drive activity |
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| Off | No drive activity |
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3 | Do not remove | Solid white | Do not remove the drive. Removing the drive causes one or more of |
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| the logical drives to fail. |
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| Off | Removing the drive does not cause a logical drive to fail. |
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4 | Drive status | Solid green | The drive is a member of one or more logical drives. |
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| Flashing green | The drive is rebuilding or performing a RAID migration, stripe size |
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| migration, capacity expansion, or logical drive extension, or is |
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| erasing. |
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