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Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) (Developers)

posted by glennmcc  , North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 17.02.2024, 22:48

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> So I don't agree that removing the hard disk light improves usability. In
> fact the hard disk light is even more important with modern SSD disks,
> because the user cannot even hear the disk I/O happening anymore.

Since an SSD is up to 10 times the speed of an HDD... even with a disk activity LED
it would blink once for a split-second for the same operation that would take a few seconds on an HDD.

Even an operation that would take a minute on an HDD would be done in only 6 seconds on an SSD

And what users EVER sit there watching for a minute or more for the HDD LED
to go out before starting another operation ? ;)

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Complete thread:

• Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - rr, 13.02.2024, 21:44 (Developers)
  • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - RayeR, 14.02.2024, 22:39
  • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - samwdpckr, 16.02.2024, 23:13
    • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - glennmcc, 17.02.2024, 22:48
      • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - samwdpckr, 18.02.2024, 19:02
        • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - glennmcc, 18.02.2024, 19:19
          • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - rr, 18.02.2024, 20:20
        • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - bretjohn, 19.02.2024, 16:40
          • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - Rugxulo, 22.02.2024, 03:50
            • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - Rugxulo, 21.03.2024, 07:22
    • Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines (by Julio Merino) - bretjohn, 18.02.2024, 16:09