Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS HDD monitoring and HDD analysis application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the HDD inside the computer or in an external enclosure (USB / e-SATA). Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.
Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk drive / HDD status, including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks today) values for each hard disks. Also it measures the hard disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations.
HDSentinel is the perfect data protection solution: it can be effectively used to prevent HDD failure and HDD data loss because it has the most sensitive hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to disk problems. This way even a small HDD problem can't be missed. The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.
Revision History
2.40
27/3/2008 detecting and displaying all information (health, temperature, etc.) and option to set acoustic level and start hard disk self tests on different USB hard disks. These are (for example):
- WD MyBook Essential / Home / Pro
- VP-9208 + VP-9054 (Smart cable and enclosure)
- Seagate FreeAgent Desktop
- USB-to-IDE/SATA adapter (cable with connectors)
More external hard disks are possible with same controller (USB bridge) chips from various vendors. The list on the hardware page will contain all known supported external hard disks. If you use ANY USB hard disk, please send report with the new version if Hard Disk Sentinel does or does not detect and display detailed information (health, temperature, etc.) about it.
improved detection routines (faster and more stable detection), improved compatibility with card readers
added MTron SSD support: displaying health value of MTron SSD
added multi language installer
added option to disable all USB and SCSI detection (Configuration, Disk Control)
added option to disable tray icon bubbles (Configuration, Alerts)
added "send report to developer" to main window main menu and toolbar. Hard Disk Sentinel now sends report directly to the server (better and faster)
added more functions to main menu (set acoustic level and test hard disk)
added quick menus to select report format when "save report" or "send report" buttons used on main window
added "check new version" option to main menu. Checking updates internally, updater starts only when new version needs to be downloaded
added option to specify disk space and partition space units for display, alert, reports (Configuration, Preferences)
added option to send report with CC (Carbon copy) / BCC (Blind carbon copy)
display "estimated" after power on time and added hint text during the test of power on time (while it is grey)
display remote path for network drives when the drive is selected
added "Alert" log page for each hard disks. All alerts created in response of an event (for example high temperature, low health, etc.) are listed here
added "Cancel" and "Help" buttons into Configuration window
option to send disk test window into background, option to start hard disk test on two or more drives at the same time. Saves and displays the duration of last disk tests also
PRO version: added "Test hard disk(s)" project. It is possible to start hard disk test on one or more hard disks at specified time(s) or upon an event (for example when the health is low). The results of the tests with the list of new problems found can be sent in e-mail when the project finished
added option to clear hard disk log
added option to automatically update DNS information for IP by DynDNS, No-IP and custom dynamic DNS service
added Vista Sidebar support: option to display hard disk temperature and health on Sidebar. SideBar look and displayed information can be configured by the "Status window" settings. Option to display hard disk usage (real time graph) on SideBar.
improved Vista compatibility, added Vista manifest, fixed Vista service issues
hard disk database now contains 1797 hard disks
fixed bug when using Fahrenheit temperature unit or switching between units
better detection of mail accounts
window and user interface fixes, improvements, menu improvements
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