Monitor your hard drive activity with these tools
In these lines we will show you a series of applications PC which were designed to function as an indicator of the hard drive activity of the system. Although for some this is largely unusable, there are many computers , especially the laptop , which don't have the usual LED that indicates when the drive is working, which is a bit annoying for some.
All of these programs are free and behave the same as the led light which is usually found in the front of many PC . So just like this light flashes when the disk sends or receives data, these activity indicators do the same. It must be taken into account that this flashing of indicators depends on the activities of reading and writing that are being executed at this time.
For all this, we are going to show you below some of the most interesting alternatives focused on these tasks of disk control .
Activity indicator
This first proposal is one of the most interesting, since its operation is based on the addition of a red indicator light in the system bar and flashing depending on the activity of the system hard drive. It allows you to configure any unit that we have installed and so surveiller its activity with the mentioned red indicator. Better yet, it generates a journal of all hard drive operations and save it for future reference if we wish.
DiskLed
This is another free software that acts like un activity indicator of Hard disk for Windows and puts a flashing green light on the system tray which flashes according to the read and write activity of the storage device all at 30 ms intervals. It should be noted that in this case, in addition to indicating the activity of the disk, we can also use it to show the activity of other system resources such that processor , system processes, tcpv4 connection, windows cache , etc.
TrayStatus
We find a powerful application that shows us the activities of the various components of the system from the system tray of Windows herself . Add a hard drive as an icon and display its activity with a series of flashing arrows on it using multiple colors together . Suppose the red arrow indicates a write operation, while the green arrow indicates the read operation . It also has an indicator for Caps Lock, Num Lock, etc.
Disk activity indicator
One of the features of this app that shows the activity of our disk is its simplicity. Add a green light to the system tray that indicates hard drive activity in real time. This LED flashes according to the read and write activities of the same hard drive and allows us to configure its flashing for a partition specific or for the whole unit .
HardDriveIndicator
HardDriveIndicator is free software that adds a small column of bars to the system tray with 5 cells high. In this way and according to the reading or writing activities of the hard drive, the indicator flashes up to a certain level. This way we can more visually see the “stress” of the unit at this time.
