First World SSD Problems

sechs

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If all of my storage is M.2, how does the motherboard know to blink the HDD activity LED?

How do I know it's actually activity on the drives?
 
sechs said:
If all of my storage is M.2, how does the motherboard know to blink the HDD activity LED?

How do I know it's actually activity on the drives?
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The LED on my case blinks when the M.2 SSD is in use. There is also an LED on most laptops with only the M.2 slot.
I don't know if the LED indicates that the SSD is actually writing or simply receiving the command to write, but does it matter?
I suppose it might not work of you are using M.2 drives on PCIe cards.
 
Hmm, I just realised how much I miss the sound from the actuators on my old Seagate Cheetah 15K.3, when they were hammering down the bytes on the disk. That was almost better feedback than a LED.
 
I bet with an arduino we could build you a device with a volume control knob that makes HD clicky noises during SATA activity. Could be a fun project just for the hell of things.
 
Handruin said:
I bet with an arduino we could build you a device with a volume control knob that makes HD clicky noises during SATA activity. Could be a fun project just for the hell of things.
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What do you need one of those for? Can't the sound be implemented in software? Maybe they could make that bizarre X15 sound.
 
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