DriveGLEAM - monitor HDD activity

Sometimes you want to know exactly what is going on with your hard drive. If that's the case, you'll want to try DriveGLEAM. It can monitor physical drives as well as partitions for activity, and report how much free space is left. All of this is done via system tray icons. DriveGLEAM is primarily a hard drive monitoring utility, but also has a few other tricks up its sleeve, like monitoring available system RAM and virtual RAM, as well as CPU load.

For the ambitious folks, DriveGLEAM also offers an odd feature of sending the hard drive's status to the parallel port so that physical LEDs can be wired to flash appropriately. Personally this is a bit of overkill (seeing the drive status in my system tray is good enough for me), but I can imagine that there are those of you out there for whom this would make a great mod.

Tags: CPU, drive monitoring, DriveGLEAM, DriveMonitoring, freeware, hard drive, HardDrive, RAM