Blinking hard drive light

[John Connor]

I have noticed that when my laptop isn't being used the HDD light will flash like it's accessing data. I ran task manager and it appears to be svchost. This is a SSD. Is it TRIM that is doing this?

When I had XP on the desktop the HDD light would flash when idle too.

 

[corkyg]

Trim, garbage collection, indexing, AV monitoring, and any other background activities your system uses. Run MSCONFIG and click on the Services tab - your list will show what you have turned on. All perfectly normal in any Windows system.