HP Hot-plug drive LED definitions

Technical Note: First Published 15 Jul 2016

Quick reference to LED indications on HP’s SC hot plug hard drives.

Item

LED

Status

Definition

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

Off

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.

Off

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 rebuilding or performing a RAID migration, strip sizemigration,capacity expansion, or logical drive extension, or is erasing.

Flashing

amber/green

The drive is a member of one or more logical drives and predictsthe 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.