Patent ID: 8856412

Claim:
A method comprising: activating a display mounted on a hard disk drive assembly, said activating comprising detecting that a control is engaged at a first time; obtaining information from a display memory within a hard disk drive of said hard disk drive assembly in response to said activation of said display mounted on said hard disk drive assembly, wherein said information is usage context of said hard disk drive comprises a rank status in a RAID configuration, the rank status including an indication of whether the rank is in one of a plurality of modes the plurality of modes comprising a normal mode, a failed mode, a degraded mode, and a rebuilding mode; displaying on said display mounted on said hard drive assembly at least a portion of said information obtained from said display memory; determining, at a second time, if said control is engaged; and in response to determining that said control is not engaged, powering off said display, wherein said second time is greater than a predetermined time threshold time after said first time.