just recently my hard drive led just keeps blinking every second the thing flashes..checked for malware all is clean,checked online and some suggest hard drive failure may be coming..any one else experience this? or know how to make it stop
just recently my hard drive led just keeps blinking every second the thing flashes..checked for malware all is clean,checked online and some suggest hard drive failure may be coming..any one else experience this? or know how to make it stop
Well ... you could unplug the light, that will make it stop.
Is your system paging a lot for some reason?
Do you have SMART enabled? Are you getting any info from that?
Perhaps it's time to run a HDD diagnostic on it.
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Trim doing its thing?
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Winblows LIKES to play with the drives. My HDD light does pretty much the same thing.
I seem to recall this same thing with a couple of linux distros I've used in the past.
If this is a winblows running rig you have there. good chance it's playing with itself rearranging things (Superfetch) or just masturbating cause it can.
Thanks guys..i'm not sure if it's trim or not(good point though),would it be doing it all the time? this all started when i turned on my computer this morning when it got to desktop my mouse was moving erratically big time lag and shit then i noticed the constant blinking..if its not my hard drive i think it might be my motherboard...also fing could be right and it's windows 7 spinning it's wheels..would hate to think my new ssd is failing..everything is running fine though
just did a diagnostic scan on my ssd using the intel tool box and it says everything is fine with the drive...still blinking though
Probably just winblows doing one of it's "things".
I've had both Vista and Windows 7 give a constant blink on two of my computers and I've seen it on others. This isn't hard disk access, it's just a quirk with some SATA I believe when Windows polls the DVD drive to see if a disk is inserted. It's just a quick blink, at the same interval, always while Windows is running.
Linux (itself, who knows what some distro has that polls hardware) doesn't do it, but I do remember seeing it when a CD or DVD is accessed. This is part of what makes me think it's related to the optical drive.
This may not be the same blink that you are describing of course.
Thanks Mike that was it..i unplugged my blue ray reader and the blinking stopped.Originally Posted by Grogan
It's harmless, and you can still distinguish real hard disk access (it's a different character of blink)
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