GideonTech has a new guide up, this time detailing a couple of ways to
put together a hard drive VU meter.

For those who want their rig to look good, there are always some eye-candies available on the market.I've seen on the forums several members asking about ways to mod the Hard Disk Drive Led indicator. There is not much we can do with just this led, except if we're to go with a pre-modded commercial item like the
$40 MojoMeter.

Now for those who are a little more hard-core, the DIY style HDD meter is for you. This guide has 2 different sections: analogic meter and digital meter. Both uses the same principle: taking the signal from the HDD Led indicator and having a scale of its on/off ratio showed visually.

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