qnap nas blinking lights

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me out. I had a synology NAS (1010) before and loved there software but didnt care for there hardware (Was a little over priced for what you get) then i found the QNAP TVS-EC1080 and it was love at first sight but from past experience didnt care for qnap software thats when i found XPEnology. long story short got the nas, setup it up and it worked! but soon found a little problem the hard drive lights keeps blinking none stop. seeing as the hard drives i put in it is new not that bad of a problem (yes i no new HDD can ship bad sometimes). And seeing how the hard drives are not mapped 1 to 1 (HDD slot 1 in synology is really HDD slot 3) i can see where this can become a problem if one of the hdd did die/crash, I want be able to tell what one because all of them are blinking. so hoping someone knows a fix for this problem.

P.S. Here a picture of the lights (turned the lights off so you can see them better, let me no if its to dark)

I dont think you will find a solution to the drive bay vs Storage Manager mapping, you are 'stuck' with how the XPE drivers and DSM enumerate the disks. I think your only option is to manually label the drive bays to match DSM. At least if 'drive 1' fails, you know its your 'bay 4' for example. Suggest you;

Shut down

Remove 'bay 1' - note the serial no - Replace

Repeat for bays 2-10

Check Storage Manager and 'map' the bays to the DSM order using the S/N as a guide

For the HDD lights, are they all flashing on/off all together? If yes then I think its because the disk LED controller is proprietary to Qnap O/S and as its not there they are in 'error' mode. Again, you might be stuck with that if you want to run DSM.

I dont think you will find a solution to the drive bay vs Storage Manager mapping, you are 'stuck' with how the XPE drivers and DSM enumerate the disks. I think your only option is to manually label the drive bays to match DSM. At least if 'drive 1' fails, you know its your 'bay 4' for example. Suggest you;

Shut down

Remove 'bay 1' - note the serial no - Replace

Repeat for bays 2-10

Check Storage Manager and 'map' the bays to the DSM order using the S/N as a guide

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For the HDD lights, are they all flashing on/off all together? If yes then I think its because the disk LED controller is proprietary to Qnap O/S and as its not there they are in 'error' mode. Again, you might be stuck with that if you want to run DSM.

Yes, all HDD lights (HDD in use (green), and bad/crash lights (red)) are flashing on/off together. Is there a way to check if its stuck in error mode (driver problem maybe)

P.S. Linux not my first language, so go easy on me ^^

I guess if you could find out how the LEDs are controlled, the chipset used, how to control the outputs eg status/green/red good/bad etc, you might be able to write some code to emulate the qnap functionality. It would be a work of art if you could

Provided Storage Manager is showing all the disks are ok you dont have any problems. I think your disk status monitoring option is limited to what DSM can offer. For example, you could setup 'Notifications' to email or txt you on a disk error.