653a hdd lights

Printers, HDDs, USB/eSATA drives, 3rd-party programs
Post Reply
Pras1011
Starting out
Posts: 30
Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:36 pm

653a hdd lights

Post by Pras1011 »

Can someone tell me why when hdds are being accessed why hdd light 1 and 2 do not flash but 3, 4, 5 lights flash?

Is it because bay 1 and 2 are on different controllers to the rest?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Last edited by Pras1011 on Fri Jul 13, 2018 8:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Top
P3R
Guru
Posts: 13192
Joined: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:39 am
Location: Stockholm, Sweden (UTC+01:00)

Re: 653a hdd lights

Post by P3R »

Pras1011 wrote:Can someone tell me why when hdds are being accessed why hdd light 1 and 2 do not flash but 3, 4, 5 lights flash?

Is it because bay 1 and 2 are on different controllers to the rest?
Even if they were of different controllers, each activity lights should flash when each disk is accessed.

Maybe it's because of this:
Pras1011 wrote:I am using unraid on my qnap...
RAID have never ever been a replacement for backups. Without backups on a different system (preferably placed at another site), you will eventually lose data!

A non-RAID configuration (including RAID 0, which isn't really RAID) with a backup on a separate media protects your data far better than any RAID-volume without backup.

All data storage consists of both the primary storage and the backups. It's your money and your data, spend the storage budget wisely or pay with your data!
Top
User avatar
Spider99
Experience counts
Posts: 1951
Joined: Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:14 pm
Location: UK

Re: 653a hdd lights

Post by Spider99 »

my 853a does the same - always has - ignore it
Tim

TS-853A(16GB): - 4.3.4.0483 - Static volume - Raid5 - 8 x 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS
Windows Server + StableBit Drivepool and Scanner ~115 TB Backup Server
TS-412 & TS-459 Pro II: Retired
Clients: 3 x Windows 10 Pro(64bit)
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Hardware & Software Compatibility”