Hard Drive Light Emulator

Question

I've just got a new Dell Inspiron, and I'm a little disconcerted without the reassurance of a flashing hard drive light, especially with long installs. Is there something that can reveal HDD activity onscreen, e.g. in the system tray?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 19 '11 at 02:41

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You can try HDDPerf, which is dedicated to showing more details about the moments when the HDD is heavily used.

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DiskMon from Sysinternals can also be minimized to systray and act like a replacement HDD activity light.

DiskMon

DiskMon and HDDPerf are both freeware.

edited Aug 19 '11 at 02:41

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answered Apr 19 '10 at 13:59

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DiskMon is a little outdated; it has been replaced with ProcMon. – u1686_grawity Apr 19 '10 at 19:19
@grawity - But ProcMon doesn't minimize to tray, and thus doesn't answer this particular question (or I missed the option) – Gnoupi Apr 19 '10 at 20:22

Mehper C. Palavuzlar · Answer 2 · 2010-04-19T14:44:13.523

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HDDLed Indicator shows real-time read and write operations on hard disk drive as small blinking indicators. Features:

Monitor multiple hard drives.

Monitor multiple logical discs.

All-in-one mode - single indicator for all drives.

Use keyboard ScrollLock led to indicate activity.

Use system tray to indicate activity.

Separate read and write operations.

Free to try, 20 bucks to buy.

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answered Apr 19 '10 at 14:00

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$20 for a little blinking light? overpriced IMO. – davr Apr 19 '10 at 16:59

Hard Drive Light Emulator

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