Readynas 104 disk activity led always on

Add me to the list of customers with the same symptom.

Engineering informed us that this is by design. If you find that LED distracting you may wish to cover it with electrical tape.

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mdgm wrote:

Engineering informed us that this is by design. If you find that LED distracting you may wish to cover it with electrical tape.

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You could also vote for the idea here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-for-ReadyNAS/Add-the-ability-to-Dim-the-Power-Light/idi-p/1049769

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The activity LED always being on in normal use is shown in the hardware manual.

On - At least one disk present.

Blinking - A disk is active.

Off - No disks are present.

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mdgm wrote:

The activity LED always being on in normal use is shown in the hardware manual.

 

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Understood.  That doesn't mean a control to turn the lights off wouldn't be nice.

Fair enough my mistake, I never looked at that part in the manual as I assumed it functioned the way a pc hard drive light usually does when there is disk activity.

Perhaps it's just me being overly picky (and a tad mischevious:smileyhappy:), but don't the Drive Bay LED numbers tell you if a disk is present (see from the manual below)? So it just seems a bit overkill to have the activity light on 24/7 to tell you a disk is present, when half an inch away, there are numbers 1-4 that light up if a disk is present? Anyway thanks for everyone's assistance - if this is the only issue I have with my Readynas I'll think my self very lucky it's a great little device to be fair.

Each drive bay has an LED associated with it on the front panel of the storage system. The disk LEDs have these states:

• On. Power is on and the disk is operating normally.

• Blinking. The disk was removed, failed, or is resynchronizing.

• Off. The drive bay is empty