Hardware manual

NETGEAR ReadyNAS 312

ReadyNAS OS 6 Desktop Storage Systems

Status Information

You can obtain information about the status of your storage system by reviewing the

indicators listed in the following table.

Table 5. ReadyNAS 312 indicator descriptions

Indicator Description

Power button and LED Press this button to turn on the ReadyNAS. The LED has these states:

• On. Powered on.

• Blinking. Booting or shutting down.

• Off. Powered of

Disk LEDs (1, 2) 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.

Disk activity LED The disk activity LED has these states:

• On. At

least one disk is present.

• Blinking. A

disk is active.

• Off. No disks are present.

Rear panel Ethernet port

LEDs

Two LED status indicators are built into this port, one green and one amber. They

indicate port speed and activity as follows:

• Green on, amber off. 1000 Mbps connection speed, no activity

• Green blinking, amber off. 1000 Mbps connection speed, activity

• Green off, amber on. 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps connection speed, no activity

• Green off, amber blinking. 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps connection speed, activity

• Green off, amber off. No connection.