Hard Disk Usage
 

My new case doesnt have a Hard disk light on it to see disk activity.

Is there any software available to view disk activity say in the system tray for example?

Thanks.

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Just use task manager built into windows shows all your disks

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Is there any reason you would need to see disk activity? Not sure any cases have had that recently especially as it's all SSD now and not spinning disc drives.

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He'll be asking if you can add a 3.5" diskette/floppy drive next. lol.

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You can get USB Floppy drives

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Who says its all SSD ? If you want large capacity storage drives, at a reasonable price, HDDs are still cheaper. SSD are more useful for system drives.

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I scrapped all my mechanical drives due to noise. I could hear then ( had 5x4TB) and they wound me up now had 3x 4TB M.2 and 3 x 4 TB sata ssds

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:shrug:
I have a 6TB, and a 13TB.
The PC fan makes more noise than they do.

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Not many people use mechanical drives on a daily use system anymore. They are slow and noisy. Yes they are still fine for NAS or backup storage etc. But for daily use like gaming or just general booting windows etc SSD, whether it's NVME M.2 or normal sata SSD drives offer decent capacity now for most things.

Mechanical is too slow for any kind of normal use.

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Change ya fan curve haha

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Hi capacity storage mech is still king and they tend to warn you pre fail where as SSDs just die

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Just what i need. Thanks.

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Why is it you need to see disk access etc?

Not something I ever think about.

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I like to see if the disk is in use from time to time if system stops responding.

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Task Manager not only shows you if the disk is being accessed it also shows you what is hogging processes and allows you to end the task of anything being naughty. You do not need a 3rd party piece of software

I think for some reason maybe my lower post count or time here but my responses to Tech based questions seem to just get ignored on this forum but I really really know what I am talking about