Incl. Patch by JUNLAJUBALAM @ The M4Y4N PR0PH3CY T34M aka MPT
Released : January 27, 2013
WORKING & TESTED on Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8
Hard Disk Sentinel Professional (HDSentinel) is a hard disk monitoring software with support of HDD/SSD drives. 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 and solid state disks 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.
HDSentinel 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 hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to hard disk problems. This way even a small HDD problem can't be missed. The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) hard disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.
Hard Disk Sentinel software system requirements
- Hardware Requirements
- Pentium or compatible CPU
- 32 megabytes of system memory
- 15 megabytes of hard disk space
- One or more hard disk or solid state disk with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II), SCSI, SAS, USB interface.
- See Hardware compatibility pages for supported hard disk drives, SSD models, disk controllers and external hard disks / enclosures / adapters.
- Other type of external disks (IEEE 1394 or used in NAS enclosures and connected via Ethernet) are NOT supported because the hard disk controller chip in the external enclosure does not support the detection of hard disk status (S.M.A.R.T.) information.
- Software Requirements
- Windows operating system (Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, Windows 8) both 32 and 64 bit versions
- System administrator account (in service mode, it is possible to use without administrator rights and without even user logged in)
Hard Disk Sentinel 4.20 (18/1/2013)
Improvements and new features:
• detect and display warning if the hard disk capacity can't be fully utilised or the actual hard disk controller / driver may cause data corruption because of mis-addressing large drives.
• option to save separate authentic reports for selected hard disks, saving current date and time and version to authentic reports
• option to copy log of disk surface test to clipboard
• option to select shut down / restart / standby / hibernate to be done upon hard disk problem (PRO version)
• improved "Do not allow spin down of disks" function, maintain low load/unload count
• improved multi-language support
Improved hardware support:
• improved support for Intel RAID controllers with Intel RST driver version 11.6 and newer
• improved acoustic management / advanced power management / free fall control
• improved text description and support for Kingston SSDs, OCZ SSDs
• improved health and text description for Samsung 830 and 840 SSDs
• improved detection of multi-drive enclosures with JMicron chips + special eSATA controllers
• improved detection of 3+ TB hard disks in general, Seagate external USB 3.0 hard disk drives
• improved support for LSI SAS/SATA RAID controllers, especially multiple RAID arrays/controllers, detection of hot spare drive(s)
• improved details on Information page
• improved support for hard disks with DELL / Lenovo specific firmware and their information reported
• improved performance monitoring and compatibility
• improved lifetime writes display for OCZ SSDs
• added support for Intel RS25DB080 SAS/SATA RAID controller
• added support for newer USB 3.0 hard disks, for example Seagate Expansion Desk
• added support for ASUS BOT storage driver (USB 3.0 boost mode)
• added support for new SSDs, support for OCZ Vector
Bug fixes, further modifications:
• fixed detection / startup problems with some Windows 8 systems with USB devices / special controllers
• fixed default sound alert notification file for Windows 8
• fixed default disk drive icon for A: and B: drives if they are associated with hard disk drive
• fixed invalid S.M.A.R.T. information reported for RAM disk
• service mode and tray application improvements
• improved tray icon hints, following the configured items at Configuration -> Status Window
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