LED question .... LED stays OFF

[cpt_paranoia]

Blue LED failure is a common problem; WD obviously designed the LED drive badly, or bought very poor blue LEDs. Mine failed years ago, but the drive works fine.

Just for kicks, I changed it to green recently:

Blue LED light not showing on WD cloud

I’ve found the same issue on my WD-Mycloud after the blue LED being off for about 2 Years (i was using DSM). I’ve found the problem is caused by HW so the only choice is replacing it by a rarely used color like Green (which makes more sense by the way) there are 2 solutions to replace the off LED by green. 1: (Easy) ssh to the Mycloud. #nano ~/.bashrc add below text to the end of the file, then CTRL+X, then Y and then Enter to save the file: echo green > /sys/class/leds/system_led/color t…