Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/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.
The software 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, solid state disks and hybrid drives (SSHD) today) values for each disks. Also it measures the disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations.
Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.60 improvements and new features:
- added support of LSI / Broadcom 9440 Tri-mode SAS / SATA / NVMe RAID controllers: detect NVMe RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of NVMe M.2 SSDs managed by Broadcom 9440 RAID controller, configured as NVMe RAID (in addition to SATA RAID, SAS RAID)
- added support of Highpoint RocketRAID 3740: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
- added support of Adaptec SmartRAID 3152-8i Controller: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
- added support of Lenovo 730 series RAID controller: detect hard disk drive status used in RAID configuration
- detect and report NVMe Namespace Information: total addressable sectors, current sector size, LBA format list (possible sector sizes) with performance
- added function to reset workload counters for Samsung PM883 / PM863a SSDs
- added support of KINGSTON SEDC450 series
- added support of KINGSTON KC600 series
- added support of Seagate Nytro SSDs, Innovation IT SSDs
- added support of Realtek RTL9210 NVMe-USB adapters
- added support of KESU USB hard disk / SSD enclosure, JAYCAR XC4687 USB HDD docking station
- added support of Raidsonic IB-1817M-C31 USB - NVMe SSD adapter with updated firmware
- added support of XT-XINTE USB 3.1 Type-C Adapter USB C 10Gbps USB-NVMe adapter
- added support of SSK USB-NVMe adapter
- added support of QNAP TR-004 4-bay USB - SATA RAID hard disk enclosure: detect and display status of hard disk drives used in RAID configuration
- added support of HIKVISION SSDs
- added support of Kingston RBUS... series SSDs, new Kingspec SSDs
- added support of WDC PC SA530 SDATB8Y1T00
Improved hardware support:
- improved support of ASMEDIA ASM2362 USB-NVMe adapter detection and NVMe SSD status reporting
- improved support of various external USB SSDs
- improved support of various SAS SSDs, proper support of Sandisk SAS Optimus Eco SSDs
- improved display of SAS hard disks, SAS SSDs, added further self-monitoring data to the S.M.A.R.T. page of SAS drives
- improved support and correct health display of WD RED SSDs
- improved support of Crucial SSDs, Apacer AS340 / Apacer AS350 series SSDs
- improved detection under Windows XP with AMD chipset
- improved detection under Windows XP with ARECA RAID controllers
- improved detection with several Intel chipsets (both RAID and with standalone disk configuration)
- improved lifetime writes on Micron, Toshiba SSDs
- improved support of ADATA, Kingspec SATA SSDs
- improved support of Samsung Enterprise class SSDs
- improved, extended detection of NVMe SSDs on Intel VROC RAID controller
- improved, extended detection of MaxCache SSDs on Adaptec SATA/SAS RAID controllers
- improved, extended detection on Marvell 9230 SATA RAID controller
- improved compatibility and USB drive status detection with Intel H87 chipset
- improved support of ADATA SSDs
- improved support of KINGSTON HyperX Fury 3D SSD support
- improved reporting of lifetime writes on many SANDISK and LITEON SSDs
- improved support of Lenovo SSDs
- improved support of newer Hitachi SAS Helium (He) drives, reporting additional self-monitoring details
- improved support of Lenovo SSDs: previously health may be 1% only on a new SSD
- improved support of various Kingspec SSDs
- improved support of various Zheino SSDs
- improved support of LSI/DELL SAS/SATA controllers on high number of disks and Cachecade configuration
- improved support of SK Hynix SC308/SC311 SSDs
- improved detection and compatibility with AMD RAID integrated controller
- improved compatibility with DELLBOSS SSD
- improved compatibility with IcyBox RD3620SU3
- improved health display for SCSI-NVMe translation
- improved performance display for eMMC when health drops to 0%
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- completely updated network engine, using TLS 1.2 protocol when sending e-mails
- fixed real-time performance display graph on NVMe SSDs
- improved disk selector on the user inteface, faster redraw/response in case of high number of disk drives
- improved logical drive and NTFS mount point detection and reporting
- improved adjustment window of acoustic level, advanced power management on high-DPI
- improved display of last update date/time for NAS drives
- completely new Turkish language support - thanks for Atyf Zafrak for the translation
- fixed bug in HTML report at logical disk free space graph
Download: Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 5.60 | Portable ~40.0 MB (Shareware)
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