Now i’ve never truly known, but i’m 88% sure it means that storage is being accessed/hard drive is being used. One use case i can think of is when your laptop is stuck updating for such a long time and that light isnt flashing, you might be able to shut it down without damage to it.

Coffee heater on/off indicator

Back in the day hard drives where composed of physical discs. A bit like those CD things the kids of yore would put in their boombox… shit now I need to explain what a boombox is. You know what it doesn’t matter, don’t worry about that light. If it turns red and you hear grinding noises, just toss the whole thing in the bin.

drive activity

And… I’m old.

Disk activity. Gives you an idea of when and how busy your hard drive/SSS is

Hard drive!

Means your computer is out of beans time to crack open a new can and fill er up

Remember the time there were spinny bois inside computers? Tegridy Farm remembers.

Disk

Don’t forget to put back that lid on the pickles jar

That’s the self destruct option.

It’s a storage indicator. Pretty standard icon of old school platters that is still used as a visual icon to represent data storage regardless of type in most technical drawings.

Fuck. I’m old.

Wait until you find out what the save icon represents