Constant Disk activity RN104 w/6.1.8

There's no industry standard here (certainly not one you can name), but in many cases like this there is industry convergence anyway. The main point 2twisty is making is that it doesn't work the way he expects, which certainly has some weight whether there is a formal standard or not. I don't know if there is a unified industry practice on this or not, but ReadyNAS is the only NAS I've ever owned, and I don't have any data-center experience - so I have no way to judge that.

As far as memories go, personally I used early minicomputers with lots of lights, the ability to enter data (and instructions) into memory from the front panel, hardware breakpoints, etc. When computer front panels disappeared, I missed a lot of those features. The light on the hard drive - if you were lucky enough to have one - meant it had finally finished spin-up and gone on-line so you could use it - which took minutes. It went off when spin-down was finished, so you could remove the platter from the drive - the platters seemed about the size of storm drain covers (well not quite), and placed inside removable cartridges.

BTW, I have participated in many consumer-product evals/betas. On thing everyone has opinions on is the LEDS. Usually its not about what the LED status actually means. Its more about how visible they are. If the product is in your bedroom or home theater, you want the LEDS totally off, and you certainly don't want anything that blinks. If its in an office or rack, you want them bright and easily seen. I totally get this - I have an R7000 in an upstairs bedroom, and I am happy that the GUI has a way to turn the leds off.