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    Vaio Z1 ssd activity light constantly flashing?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by nyyankees3511, May 18, 2011.

  1. nyyankees3511

    nyyankees3511 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is there a reason why my activity light is constantly flickering? It gets better when I unplug the laptop. But I can be doing nothing on just the desktop and it still flickers.
     
    nyyankees3511, May 18, 2011
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    shurcooL Notebook Deity

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    Probably because you're using Windows 7 and it does a whole bunch of useless stuff in the background.
     
    shurcooL, May 18, 2011
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    Is it in a RAID? There are housekeeping tasks needed to keep the RAID healthy and recoverable.

    This is over and above the normal disk usage, like antivirus and malware scans, system restore snapshots, file indexing, defragmentation, vaio content analyser, other content analysers like media players, itunes, Nero, Windows Updates, VAIO updates, yada yada yada.
     
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