Thursday, May 28, 2015

Is it okay to purchase a laptop without HDD activity LED?


m looking at this Lenovo laptop, it's a core i7 4th generation, FHD display, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, GeForce840M with 4GB dedicated graphics memory, and costs just $1000.

i like it, but it doesn't have a HDD activity LED.
should I get it? Will the lack of the LED be a major problem in future?

I can think of a few situations where i would like the HDD LED--

1>installing Windows, the installer is not responding-- i can check if there's HDD activity.
2>starting/shutting down Windows-- if the startup/shutdown stops responding i can check if there's HDD activity.
3>Windows updates-- if it locks up during an update, i can check if there's disk activity…

But these aren't very common situations.
So what then, shall i get this Lenovo?

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