Comments on: Blinking lights… https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: tenox https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-57046 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:01:39 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-57046 In reply to neozeed.

SSDs are rather slow for sequential operations compared to a fast HDD. Spend few more dollars and move the system to a PCIe flash card. I have OCZ RevoDrive. Yes they are notoriously unreliable, but I use it for the boot only and don’t mind reinstalling the OS if the card fails. On the other hand it does 900 MB/s for write and 1100 MB/s for read. Zero latency. It’s unbeatable for a boot drive.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56976 Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:06:12 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56976 In reply to tenox.

I think I’ve become so accustomed to watching blinking lights that it feels reassuring to know it’s doing “something”.. Although its amazing with 16gb of ram the disk is still going like crazy. I recently moved my windows 7 to a SSD and it is much faster that is for sure!

]]> By: tenox https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56971 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:25:04 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56971 This is really cool! However personally I really do hate mechanical media. I have moved all my floppy drives to HxC and HDDs to various forms of flash memory. Having 1000 mbps transfers and zero latency to disk I have a luxury of not caring whether the disk is active or not 😉

]]> By: Roy https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56969 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:17:36 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56969 In reply to neozeed.

sure there are some on youtube.
http://youtu.be/5gELOnvVuJs

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56948 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:26:24 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56948 In reply to Roy.

looks like a PS/2 …. I was hoping for a 5 1/4″ FH monster…!

But yeah… this has some good possibilities… I did something like this with SIMH ages ago although I can’t find my mods but it was kind of trivial to do…

]]> By: Roy https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56942 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:51:01 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56942 In reply to neozeed.

what about this? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR_Vdiwb4tE

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56929 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:12:32 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56929 In reply to Roy.

Oh sweet, I was almost tempted to write something to blink red for write, and green for read… Now what I really want is a good HQ sound sample of an old hard disk to complete the image……

]]> By: Roy https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56928 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:10:14 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56928 I used another utility: DiskState
http://roy.orz.hm/gpc/files1.rt/DiskState.7z (I translated the UI to English)
It reads different counters, and have read/write light separated.

]]> By: bamdad https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56880 Fri, 21 Mar 2014 03:28:16 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56880 In reply to neozeed.

yeah, can’t stand those cases that look like the bastard child of a ferrari and an aquarium. : ) anyway, i see how this taskbar disk led can be useful, especially with an ssd.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2014/03/20/blinking-lights/comment-page-1/#comment-56828 Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:27:27 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=3932#comment-56828 In reply to bamdad.

the only thing more annoying would be to put those blue LED’s in a computer..

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