I'm a little embarrassed to even ask, but what does the green LED represent on a Pi5?
Searching suggests it's sdcard activity. But I have no sdcard inserted. The green LED sometimes is on solid, sometimes flickers quickly as if it's showing some sort of packetized activity, and sometimes is off. However, I have an NVME drive (Pimoroni NVME dual) with a hardware activity light and the Pi5's green LED activity shows no correlation with that. It also doesn't correlate with WiFi transfers.
So... what exactly is it indicating?
Searching suggests it's sdcard activity. But I have no sdcard inserted. The green LED sometimes is on solid, sometimes flickers quickly as if it's showing some sort of packetized activity, and sometimes is off. However, I have an NVME drive (Pimoroni NVME dual) with a hardware activity light and the Pi5's green LED activity shows no correlation with that. It also doesn't correlate with WiFi transfers.
So... what exactly is it indicating?
Statistics: Posted by VA1DER — Sun Dec 07, 2025 3:20 am