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Softpedia Editor's Review for DriveGLEAM
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Shows hard-disk activity in the system notification area (tray)
Written by Bogdan Popa on February 15th, 2012
DriveGLEAM is a handy piece of software that places an icon in the System Tray to help you monitor disk activity and/or RAM and CPU usage.
While the interface cannot be resized, it's still a good thing that most features are grouped in a single window, which makes everything a lot easier to configure and use.
For example, DriveGLEAM displays all drives, along with RAM, CPU and VRAM controllers to let you configure them for placing an icon in System Tray for easy monitoring.
The application provides read, write and idle indicators, which means any changes to the items you select can be easily noticed. Plus, it boasts a dedicated tool to use the keyboard scroll lock LED as a notifier whenever there's activity on one of the selected disks.
The System Tray icon shows multiple details such as the volume name, file system, free capacity, read and written bytes whenever you move the mouse cursor over it.
There are only a few customization options available, including separate tools to set up activity poll interval and load indicators interval, but also to enable multi CPU monitoring and a single icon mode for all selected items.
Although it's supposed to run all the time, DriveGLEAM has just a minimum footprint on hardware resources, remaining very light all the time.
All in all, DriveGLEAM works smooth on all Windows versions out there and it doesn't even ask for administrator privileges to run on Windows 7. To sum up, it's one of the easiest ways to keep an eye on disk activity.
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DriveGLEAM description
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Here are some key features of "DriveGLEAM":
· Monitor physical disks or partitions (or both)
· Allows for CPU, RAM , VRAM usage display in tray.
· Read / Write / ReadWrite and Idle status indicators
· Indicators in tray or the parallel port, output directly to LED's, Just place some LED's on top of your monitor and enjoy real monitoring of read/write status realtime ;) (no special hardware required)
· Keyboard scroll lock LED option.
· Uses very few resources (including cpu usage)
· Very stable.
· Does not "hook" into your system
· Standalone, does not require a install but uses inno setup for your convenience.
· Failure in DriveGLEAM can't "freeze" your drives.
· Configurable start with os delay
· Configurable poll rate
· Does not install lots of files in your system.
Requirements:
· A Pentium II 233MHz processor should be more than enough
· About 0.5 Megabytes of RAM
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added support for multiple parallel ports
· Various minor adjustments
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