Hard Disk Sentinel 6.20 Build 13190 – Final

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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 6.20 (2024-02-29):

Improvements and new features:

added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When custom threshold reached
right click on any attribute on the S.M.A.R.T. page to define custom alert threshold condition:
when Value or Data field is lower, lower or equal, higher, higher or equal, equal or not equal compared to configured threshold
added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk added/connected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert
added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk removed/disconnected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert
surface test functions can be used for SAS 4Kn drives formatted to non-standard sector sizes (4160 bytes/sector, 4224 bytes/sector)
added Slovenian language, thanks for Andraz Poje for the translation
added complete French help (thanks for Francois MORTEAU)

Improved hardware support:

added support of Fusion ioMemory / ioScale SSDs: detect and report health, temperature, wearout, lifetime writes, usage statistics
added support of new combo USB-NVMe / USB-SATA external adapters
added support of various new industrial (micro) SD cards: detect card status, health, wearout and details about newer Innodisk, Swissbit, Greenliant SD cards
added support of QNAP QDA-A2AR RAID device (2×2.5″ HDD/SSD to single drive): detect complete S.M.A.R.T. status of both drives in RAID configuration
added support of Silverstone DS223 2x SATA RAID box: detect status of both hard disks / SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, JBOD modes
added support of i-Tec MySafe 2x M.2 SATA RAID box support: detect status of both M.2 SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, LARGE modes
added support of Kingston Datatraveler Workspace pendrive: detect health, temperature, lifetime status / statistics
added support of HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ tri-mode SAS/SATA/NVMe RAID controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
added support of Crucial X9 Pro external SSD, Crucial X10 Pro external SSD
added support of CISCO UCS C240 M4 12G Modular Raid controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
added support of Inateck SA03001 USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA adapter: detect complete status of all 2.5″ , 3.5″ IDE/ATA and SATA drives
added support of Lexar E6 USB-NVMe adapter
added support of Oyen Digital MiniPRO RAID V4: detect status of both hard disks / SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, JBOD modes
added support of ServeRAID C100 / C105: Raid controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
added support of Kingston SEDC600 SSD, ADATA SE920 SSD
improved status detection when AMD RAID used with Microsoft Storage Spaces configuration
improved status detection and compatibility with password protected WD My Book external drives
improved compatibility with USB3.0 Super Speed external SATA disk drive enclosure
improved support of Sabrent NVMe USB adapter
improved status and Health % reporting for DELL(tm) SSDs
improved support / compatibility with Adaptec SAS/SATA HBAs
improved support of MegaRAID 9540-8i, MegaRAID 9560-8i RAID controller: detection of drives in RAID configuration, arrays, hot spare drive(s), NVMe RAID support
improved support of Seagate Ironwolf SSD
improved support of Transcend SATA 1 TB SSD
improved support of various SATA SSDs from unknown/various manufacturers
improved health % detection of Sandisk SDSSDHII960G
advanced health % reporting of Micron SSDs with Lenovo firmware
advanced Disk Specific Information and error reporting of problematic / failing NVMe SSDs
improved reporting of HIKVISION SATA SSDs, ADATA SATA SSDs
improved detection/reporting of HOT SPARE drives on various LSI, AVAGO, BROADCOM, INTEL, DELL SATA/SAS controllers
improved support of some Kingston SATA SSDs, Sandisk SATA SSDs
improved support of UNIC2 / TXRUI SSDs
improved support of Sandisk Extreme Pro external SSDs: Disk menu -> Short self test, Extended self test functions are available
improved compatibility and support with MAXIO Technology SATA and PCIe SSDs
improved support of multiple Yottamaster 5 bay RAID enclosures, Oyen Digital Mobius RAID enclosures
improved support of HP SATA/SAS HBAs
improved reporting of some Kingston SSDs (some firmware versions may previously reported high number of communication errors)
improved reporting with RaidON InTank iR2622
improved reporting of Crucial SATA SSD lifetime writes
improved reporting of various Silicon Power SPCC SSD, Hikvision SATA SSD, Micron SSD, Kingspec SSD, Suneast SSD, EGON SSD
improved reporting of various Samsung SSD, Sandisk SSD, Patriot P210 SSD, Patriot P220 SATA SSD
improved reporting of various Intel SSDs, DELL and HP OEM SSD: showing health, wearout, lifetime writes
improved power on time reporting of some older Fujitsu SATA hard disk drives
improved compatibility with ATTO SAS/SATA HBA (non-RAID) controllers
improved compatibility with QNAP multi-drive RAID boxes / enclosures
improved support of some Samsung SATA SSDs, Kingspec SSDs
improved power on time reporting on WD SAS drives
improved detection of disk status in RAID configurations when ARECA RAID controller used with 4Kn formatted SATA hard disk drives
improved detection with Cachecade configuration on LSI controllers
improved detection of Sandisk Ultra II SSDs with some USB adapters/docks/enclosures
improved support and reporting of Intel Pro 5400 SATA SSDs
detection and reporting of Set sector configuration log in the Device Specific Information section (if supported by the drive)
added support of ALLIED SATA SSD, FIKWOT SATA SSD
added detection of additional fake SSDs / pendrives
improved compatibility with some old USB 2.0 card readers
improved reporting of various Hitachi SAS hard disks / SSDs
added/improved support of various SATA SSDs (SK Hynix, Transcend, ADATA, Ramsta)

Bug fixes, further modifications:

fixed lifetime writes display for 4Kn Seagate SATA hard disk drives
fixed tray icon images with some special custom scaling values
fixed backup projects with too long file names / too long paths
fixed System Management Information always saved to reports even if that option disabled at Configuration -> Message Settings page
fixed Polish language display during disk test
improved image quality on some high DPI scale settings

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: 38.3 MB