DiskSpy 1.3 review

While many PC makers put hard disk LEDs on the outside of their computers, Apple hasn't put any disk LEDs on any Macintoshes since the SE/30.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Nick Zitzmann Price: $0.00 Updated: 05 Jan 2005

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While many PC makers put hard disk LEDs on the outside of their computers, Apple hasn't put any disk LEDs on any Macintoshes since the SE/30. Some Mac old-timers may remember the number of products that were available during the System 7 era that provided a software disk LED in the menu bar.

DiskSpy is a small program that acts as a software disk LED for Macs running Mac OS X. DiskSpy sits in the menu bar and gives visual notifications when the OS is reading from or writing to a disk. DiskSpy does not run in the kernel region, does not use any private frameworks or undocumented APIs, does not require any hacks to use, does not trap any low-level I/O calls, does not run as the super user, nor does it actually write to any disk(s), so it is safe to use.