Hard drive constantly activity led blinking - new WIN7 Ultimate Dell PC

I've been solving this problem and for weeks on my new WIN 7 64 Ultimate Dell XPS 8000 (I7 - 860 1 TB HD 8 GB of Ram).    Looking around for a found many recommendations and a couple of issues resolved, (more unresolved), but none of the recommendations has helped me.

I had the feeling that it is perhaps a Dell-specific question, but I had no answer in the Dell forums.   I don't know if I call the Dell technical support, all I get is recommendation to return to the factory default.  No thanks!

I disabled all the suspects, at least temporarily to see if it has an effect:

Indexing of Windows & research
Windows Firewall
Windows Defender
System restore
Remote differential compression
Windows Fax & Scan
SuperFetch
Sea port

With all these off, flashing was much less busy, but there was still a steady pulse of the blink type.   I have since the Defender reactivated and restore the system.    (Even if they were to blame, it is almost a solution/workaround acceptable!)

I studied the disk activity in PERFMON, and there is an occasional activity of nucleus and the recording of events.  I took a few shots of window I can post (if I can figure out how).   I also have a HijackThis log.

Sometimes the PERFORMANCE of disk activity monitor window is empty but still the light continues to blink!  huh?

I did not disable Hibernate (there was a suggestion somewhere he could play a role).  I use it regularly.   But I can try that too, you think it might help.

I'm at my wits end and a bit overwhelmed by all the data in order to study and seek.  I hate diddling with the services and the registry, fearing to wet my head and creating a mess that I can't get.

In addition, there is no additional security software and I haven't installed everything preinstalled trial crapola.

Help!

I'll post the hijack this log in the next post

Updated to clarify: what I reported above is essentially on the out-of-the-box behavior... not or associated with CPU-bound application. The system was fairly clean with an installed extra software/hardware minimum.

Hard drive blinks quckly because Microsoft made what is called something like Write Cache Flushing flushes written disc that maybe in this cache on the disk?  Simple.

The reason is... If you have a power failure... you lose this memory data cache and/or corrupted something that may be important.   Also taking a hit on the drive's performance and life expectancy.  If some experts say.

If you have a battery backup... or most laptops with a battery can... Turn it off!

.. In Device Manager, the properties of the hard drive has usually a checkbox to activate cache of writing... and some will have another check box...  Disable Microsoft Write Cache Flushing.<  add="" a="" check="" to="" that="" guys box...now="" look="" at="" your="" non="" very="" often="" blinking="" hdd="" light... works=""  same="" with="" some="" of="" the="" dvd/cd="" drives, same="" controllers="">

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