MacBook Pro :: LED Of Hard Drive Is Blinking Red / Blue
Aug 26, 2014
I have an 8TB 4big Quadra with 4 bays. It's been running good for more than a year now. Today, the rear LED of the last drive is blinking red/blue red/blue. The drive seems to be working. My drive have only 1 big blue light in the front and one little blue LED for each disc at the back so I always had 5 blue lights on. Now I have only 4 blue and a red/blue blinking.
The drive is hooked up to my MBP running all the latest software.
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Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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May 20, 2009
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