Harddrive Activity Indicator

[Awgeewhiz]

Homepage: HardDriveIndicator

If your hard drive LED light is broken or hidden, HardDriveIndicator is the ideal solution.
HardDriveIndicator displays a system tray load indicator for your local physical disks,
__ with a 5 bar resolution for both the read and write operation of the hard disk.
Displays a system tray load indicator for your local physical disks.
Has a 5 bar resolution for both read and write operations.
Has a small memory footprint and low CPU utilisation.
Auto-calibrates itself to ensure that the output is relative to the
__ disk usage for the previous 60 seconds (Read and write scales are not relative).
Shows a 'governor' to indicate whether the system tray icon is actually being updated.
Requires: Win XP/2K/2003

[MidnightCowboy]

Flashing away as we speak on x32 W7 Ultimate too The tray icon is exactly the same layout as Zone Alarm Free firewall with the additional read/write roving "thing" underneath.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by Awgeewhiz

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Shows a 'governor' to indicate whether the system tray icon is actually being updated.
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What is the meaning of 'governor' in the context?

[Awgeewhiz]

Originally Posted by vasa1

What is the meaning of 'governor' in the context?

A moving "underline" character that moves back and forth underneath the
icon to indicate status update is taking place.

[MidnightCowboy]

To me it's still a "thing". Bit like the roving eye on that robot in the film about the black hole or whatever it was called?

[Awgeewhiz]

Originally Posted by MidnightCowboy

To me it's still a "thing". Bit like the roving eye on that robot in the film about the black hole or whatever it was called?

I think you may be mixing your movie metaphors.

My avatar is Gort from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

He definately has the roving eye.

Maximillian the robot was from the movie Black Hole - 1979".

[Pilgrim]

If you just want an LED try this: Hard Disk Indicator
I have used this for a long time as my PC's tower is out of my line of site.

[26Dolphins]

Hi,
@Pilgrim
I did a search on Hard Disk Indicator, but there's not much description on the sites you can download it, so here're a couple of questions for you:
Does it work with external disks as well?
It's also on portablefreeware.com. Is that different from the link to Softpedia you provided?
There's also a comment on portablefreeware.com about it being resource hungry during intense hard disk activity. Have you experienced sth like that?

Thanks in advance

[Anupam]

It seems like the Hard Disk Indicator software is no longer available on the developer's website : Lonewolf. So, only way to get is from the download sites.

[Pilgrim]

26Dolphins,

I think you'll find that it's the same program on both sites.
I have never tried it with an external drive but I suspect that it probably would work, I have in the past used O&O DriveLED and that picked them up.

Resources are not usually an issue for me so I have never checked but I have just opened the Task Manager and while scanning a folder with Avira, HDI was showing 4% CPU and around 1mb of ram. I am not aware of it going much over that but as I say I have never checked.

Anupam,

I downloaded this 3 years ago and I am not certain that I got it from the developer's site in the first place.
All the programs on that site now appear to be paid for.