Does this drive have an activity light? (very useful when being used as a boot device on a potentially damaged computer)
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Sorry, no it does not have an activity light. But I've got to say I absolutely love this flash drive. It has a very expensive look to it with that nice brushed gun metal casing. And you will be shocked at how tiny it is! It's about half the physical size of the average flash drives out there. But I must say when plugged into my computer, it displays a total of only 57.6GB of usable space.
1649091
It flashes when read / write. Actually, the light is not a dot on the USB drive. It is under the sliding bar but u can see the blue light flashing when first plugged in and when read / write. It is quite obvious.
1230288
No, unfortunately it does not. However, there are many inexpensive external drives which can be purchased here on Amazon. It's so thin, though, I really don't miss it. And it has a backlit keyboard! (Writing this response on it right now.)
385410
There is no power switch on the 3 TB drive. The disk will, however, spin down when the host machine is off.
1688929
A Red LED 'activity' indicator. No continuity indicator, only lights during reads and writes....flashes....no steady light
475148
There are leds for each drive, they flash when the drive is accessed. I don't know if the drives are spinning, but I do know that if I haven't accessed a drive in a while, there is a slight delay. Almost like they are not spinning. The unit shuts down when I power down my computer, but need to push button to start. Will not activate at boot. Hope this helps.
457123
There are no light indicator lights. I own several of these drives and have had no issues with them. They fit nicely on a keychain and have bought several for co-workers, so they would stop borrowing the ones that I carry.
385412
There is no power switch. The drive powers on when it is plugged into and being used by the computer. It powers off after a period of no use or when ejected.
629523
Yes, it has an activity LED. I haven't seen a USB flash drive without an activity LED in maybe a decade (they may well exist, but I haven't seen them).
505084
Did you turn it on? Is it fully plugged into the drive? I had an issue with an older ISA/EISA drive not getting fully plugged in. If you are using one of the 3.5" drives you need to check to verify that it is powering up. No power means it is not working. If you hear the drive power up (you can hear it spin up) and it is fully connected is it making any other sounds like clicking? If so the drive itself may be dead. There are several tricks to try if that is the case but without more details of the issue I can't help much more.
1196677
Yes it is. You go into the bios and turn it on if for some reason it is off.
1645
no just follow instructions, put it on drive turn off pc and back on, select boot from disk
92192
Drive is powered by the computer (device) it is attached to. There is not external power or plug to attach one.
383161
Yes it does. It even has various brightness levels for the back light. That's really cool. It boots super fast due to the 32gb sad dedicated to booting.
748639
Yes , the blue light that is above the SATA port is ALWAYS on as for the Green light , this one is on when A media card is being read by this device , I hope this helped . Gary s Meredith
916226
I have never removed it since day one, I just leave it in with the MBA sleeping or turned off, no difference. I do not have it set to be bootable or anything like that, its just a fast solid performing data drive for stuff I use less than weekly
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has to be unplugged, doesn`t have a turn off switch like some other harddrives