{"id":344,"date":"2020-04-04T21:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-04-04T21:57:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T19:57:21","slug":"decoding-the-meaning-of-led-on-dell-enterprise-physical-drives-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/decoding-the-meaning-of-led-on-dell-enterprise-physical-drives-pd\/","title":{"rendered":"Decoding the meaning of LED indicators on Dell Enterprise Physical Drives (PD) ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"344\" class=\"elementor elementor-344\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9dcde09 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9dcde09\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-45f4fd21\" data-id=\"45f4fd21\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-062a80d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"062a80d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dell-r710-raid-leds.jpg\" class=\"attachment-agama-blog-large size-agama-blog-large wp-image-346\" alt=\"Raid Leds\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dell-r710-raid-leds.jpg 682w, https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dell-r710-raid-leds-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6703142b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6703142b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2><strong>Before you scratch your head out, note the meaning of the LED indicators on Dell Enterprise drives.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>On hotswap drives, the backplane provides two LED indicators per drive that transmit light to the top of their respective caddies.<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The light on the left is managed by the drive itself and indicates activity on the drive.<\/li>\n<li>The indicator on the right is controller by the backplane in conjunction with the storage controller and is used to indicate drive status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>This article explains the differents states possible of the physical drive:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kbimg.dell.com\/library\/KB\/DELL_ORGANIZATIONAL_GROUPS\/DELL_GLOBAL\/Servers\/PrtScr%20capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td>1 . physical disk activity indicator<br \/>2 . physical disk status indicator<br \/>4 . physical disk eject button<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Drive-status indicator pattern (RAID only)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Condition<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blinks green two times per second<\/td>\n<td>Identifying drive or preparing for removal.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blinks green, amber, and turns off<\/td>\n<td>Predicted drive failure<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blinks amber four times per second<\/td>\n<td>Drive failed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blinks green slowly<\/td>\n<td>Drive rebuilding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Steady green<\/td>\n<td>Drive online<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Blinks green three seconds, amber three seconds,<br \/>and turns off six seconds<\/td>\n<td>Rebuild aborted<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Off<\/td>\n<td>Ready for insertion\/removal or not detected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Before you scratch your head out, note the meaning of the LED indicators on Dell Enterprise drives. On hotswap drives, the backplane provides two LED indicators per drive that transmit light to the top of their respective caddies. The light on the left is managed by the drive itself and indicates activity on the drive. The indicator on the right<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/decoding-the-meaning-of-led-on-dell-enterprise-physical-drives-pd\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datacenter-news","category-how-tos-and-other-useful-tips-and-tricks","category-tekmart-enterprise-hardware-tips","category-why-explanations-on-data-center-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}