If HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection has parked the drive, the computer behaves in the followingways: Solid state drives can seem expensive because they are costly to produce and have to compete with other components for production lines. One way of reducing cost has been to increase the number of bits per cell.

Once did voltage measurements from mobo connector for small circuit connected also to HW RAID card's outputs. This is a surefire way to reduce costs and increase capacity but it has considerably negative effects on performance, reliability and endurance, the latter being super important if you want to use your drives for Chia farming or as NAS drives. LEDs in series would need increased source voltage to draw any current, which is very likely impossible to get directly.I have read your post, understand that the hard drive light shows orange permanently on your laptop. I want to assist you in this matter. The small print shows that this is valid for drops of up to 1.2m on a carpeted concrete floor for 1TB and 2TB capacities and up to 1m on a carpeted concrete floor for 4TB capacity. The latter has more platters which makes it a bit more fragile. Note that while it is rain and dust-resistant, it is not IP68, so don’t take it swimming with you.

Examples: Upgrading your Operating System or installing a new software; or installing new hardware like a printer, modem, or router. If you have any other questions about forum posting, please feel free to send me a private message!LaCie is a highly trusted brand for external hard drives, and with this device, its expertise shines through as brightly as its bright orange color scheme. But would better to use some "buffer" or what ever you want to call it circuitry using mobo's HDD LED header only as controlling input. Though there are differences in amount of current needed by LEDs and likely not just from light output but also from efficiency differences. Thank you for posting in this thread. Unfortunately based on when the last response was made, I have closed this thread to help keep comments current and up to date. We recommend starting a new thread for your issue. For advanced use beyond just the normal chassis LED it would be better to connect the output of the front panel connector to a transistor or optorelay and use that to drive the output of whatever illumination which sourced its power from another output.