Satellite L350-170 - Should HDD/ODD light be flashing?

I have a L350-170, noticed recently it seems to be constantly flashing.
I went out this morning, came back and laptop had not gone in "sleep"mode? Ilight was still flashing have run Avast,malwarebytes and superantispy, and besides the usual adware stuff super finds, nothing. Should I be worried?
Not sure if it's always flashed!

hi mole1,
sure there is a solution:
remove the cover, cut out the led and reassemble the unit > flashing light is now history!
*dont do that* i am only kidding!
there are many "sleep" option for your notebook:
one of them shuts down the lcd only, everything else is working.
the flashing hdd led should be gone when the notebook is sent to "hybernation"
this means the ram is saved to disc and machine is going down.
in this state there is no activity on your harddisc at all!
if any program, service or download prevents your system from this state you will have this issue.
check if the same happens when NOT connected to lan/wlan.
when system is running, no matter what state, the os is writing permantly to hdd and reads content from it so that a little trafic is normal.
Message was edited by: Al-eX

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