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Add a hard drive-activity LED to a laptop that lacks one |
June 10, 2013
Activity Indicator.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active.
That's partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes), and partly so I can troubleshoot problems.
For example, if my mouse is suddenly non-responsive, I can check to see if there's still drive activity--and know whether or not I need to force a shutdown.
In the old days, I could hear a drive thrashing inside my desktop. Indeed, that was one sure-fire way to diagnose the insidious "click of death." But now that I'm mostly on laptops, which incorporate much quieter drives (or, in the case of SSDs, totally silent drives), I have to rely on LEDs.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2041183/add-a-hard-drive-activity-led-to-a-laptop-that-lacks-one.html#tk.rss_howto
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