Hard Disk Sentinel 6.40.1 Beta/ 6.40.0

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Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS HDD/SSD monitoring and analysis application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair disk drive problems. Also it reports and displays SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures.

Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and reports the most comprehensive information about the Hard Disks and Solid State Disks inside the computer or in external enclosures (USB, e-SATA). Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.

Hard Disk Sentinel Features:

The software monitors Hard Disk Drive status. That include health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most HDD and SSD today) values for each disks.

Also HDSentinel measures the disk transfer speed in real time. It can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible HD failures, performance degradations.

Hard Disk Sentinel is the perfect data protection solution. It can be effectively used to prevent HDD failure and SSD / HDD data loss. Because it has the most sensitive 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.

HDD Sentinel runs in the background and verifies SSD / HDD health status by inspecting the SMART status of the disk(s). If an error is found or unexpected behaviour is detected, it warns the user about the current situation and also can perform appropriate actions. For example, start an automatic backup.

Usually, hard disk health status may slowly decline, from day to day. The SMART monitoring technology can predict HDD failure by examining the critical values of the disk drive. Compared to other software, Hard Disk Sentinel detects and reports every disk problem.

The software also displays the current hard disk temperature and logs maximum and average HDD temperatures. This may be used to check the maximum temperature under high hard disk load.

Changes in Hard Disk Sentinel 6.40 (2026-02-23):

Improvements and new features:

added button to save screenshot about Hard Disk Sentinel main window (CTRL+Print Screen)
options to configure screenshot settings (screenshot folder, file name template, file format (PNG/JPG/BMP), single-click screenshot)
added button to safely eject (remove/disconnect) the selected removable drive (CTRL+F5)
right click on the safely eject (remove/disconnect) button to allow re-activate a previously safely removed drive if possible (CTRL+F6)
display Drive Recording Type: CMR or SMR for hard disk drives on Information page
added date/time of alert in alert pop up window

Improved hardware support:

faster and improved NVMe RAID detection with Intel VROC controller / RAID configurations
added hardware self test function (Disk menu -> Short self test, Extended self test) for USB-NVMe adapters/converters/docks with Realtek chipset
added support of Sandisk SD Express card reader, SD Express memory cards: detect and report health, temperature, lifetime status, S.M.A.R.T. details of SD Express cards
added support of TEAMGROUP T-CREATE EXPERT S.M.A.R.T. Micro SDXC Memory Card (128 GB-2 TB): detect micro SD card Health %, total amount of written data (lifetime writes).
To enable: select Control device-specific detection on the right side of the main window and use the Auto detect button
added support of TEAMGROUP T-CREATE EXPERT V60 SDXC Memory Card (64 GB-1 TB): detect card Health %, erase count, endurance, power cycle count
To enable: select Control device-specific detection on the right side of the main window and use the Auto detect button
added support of LSI Nytro WarpDrive: detect complete status (health, temperature, lifetime writes, power on time and complete S.M.A.R.T. details) of all SSDs
added support of 2230 USB-NVMe enclosure with write protect switch
added support of UGREEN 4 drive RAID USB box: detect health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status of disk drives in RAID configuration
added support of NVMe2K NVMe driver: detect complete NVMe status under Windows XP / 2000, thanks to Techomancer for the NVMe2K driver
detect/report of additional NVMe S.M.A.R.T. attributes (if available): Thermal Management Transition Count, Total Time For Thermal Management Temperature
detect/report FARM LOG / status information on OOS (recertified) drives if available
improved NVMe, SAS, SATA status detection with Broadcom 9400 and 9500 series tri-mode HBAs
improved detection and support of LSI SAS3 Cutlass and various Broadcom, Lenovo SATA/SAS controllers
improved detection/health reporting of Lenovo SAS drives on Lenovo SAS RAID controllers
improved compatibility and detection of SATA and SAS drives with Highpoint Rocket 720L controller
improved detection/health reporting of some Hitachi HGST SAS drives
improved detection/reporting of Intel DC3500 series SSDs
improved support of some ADATA, Sandisk, WD, Kingspec, Lite-On, Toshiba, Kioxia, SHAREVDI, Faspeed SSDs
improved disk short / extended self test and support of 4Kn SAS drives with non-standard sector sizes (4160/4224 bytes/sector)
improved hardware self tests (Disk menu -> short self test, extended self test) with various USB adapters, USB docks
improved compatibility with ACASIS 5 bay USB-SATA enclosure
improved compatibility with ORICO NS500, ORICO 9558, ORICO 9858RU3, Mediasonic and various USB RAID hard disk enclosures
improved support of Kingston Fury Renegade NVMe SSDs
improved detection with various Adaptec RAID controllers with SAS SSDs
added support of SSK NVMe SSD Cloner M.2 Duplicator Dual Bay NVMe Enclosure
added/improved support of Crucial X10 USB SSD, Lexar ES4, Lexar ES5 USB-SSD
improved support of various USB-NVMe adapters, enclosures, docks
improved detection and disk status reporting with different USB-SATA hard disk docks, converters, enclosures
improved support of ATP mSATA SSDs
improved detection and status, Health reporting of Silicon Power MS60 pendrive
improved lifetime writes on Samsung SM951 SSD
improved detection, status reporting and error logging of various Micron SATA SSDs
improved text report of SK HYNIX SATA SSDs with errors
improved compatibility with various USB devices with card readers
improved detection when multiple FusionIO ioDrive SSDs / ioDrive Duo drives used

Bug fixes, further modifications:

improved registration information / licensing messages
improved network operation
added Dutch Help and minor changes in Dutch language support, thanks to Jaap Kramer for the translation
added Portuguese language support, thanks to Filipe Mota (BlackSpirits) for the translation
fixed message dialogs if high number of disks present and S.M.A.R.T. offset used
minor changes, modifications, optimizations

Homepage – https://www.hdsentinel.com

Supported Operating Systems:

Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019.

Hard Disk Sentinel supports the detection of all hard disk drives, regardless of their connection and size. This includes all IDE, S-ATA (including Serial ATA II and Serial ATA 6G), SCSI, SAS, USB hard disk models with even capacities 2 TB and over. Hard Disk Sentinel automatically detects and displays the supported features of the disks, the temperature and health information.

Different hard disk drives have different features. Older hard disk models may not have temperature sensors – in such cases no temperature information is displayed in the software.

Hard Disk Sentinel also maintains a hard disk drive database with full details of over 6000 hard disk models from various vendors. This includes known hard disks from the past 15 years, from less than 100 MB models to today’s top and newest hard disk drives.

Hard Disk Sentinel both supports hybrid drives (SSHD) and supports over 2000 SSD models with different connections including IDE, SATA, mSATA, M.2, NVMe, SAS, USB and so.

Size: 40.4 MB