Is this the way it's supposed to be?

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The LED for my HD flashes on and off once or twice per second, even
when there is no application running and the machine is just sitting
there. On my old 98SE machine the LED for the HD never flashed unless
I saved a file or opened something. The rest of the time it remained
dark while I played Solitaire or Sudoku or some such thing.

It seems unnatural that my Dell Dimension C521 with XP (MCE) should
have the HD almost perpetually active.

Is this the way it's supposed to be? Is your HD continually flashing?

Thanks
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