Track activity of your HDDs and their temperature, prevent damage to the disks. The program shows all partitions, assesses their free space, health status, shows performance stats (read and written data, transfer rate, disk activity) and the temperature of the disk (current, maximum, and day's average). Has customizable hotkeys, messages, and alerts.
Hard Disk Sentinel was created to help Windows users to analyze and monitor the performance of their disks. The program is compatible with a wide variety of data storage containers, provides you with detailed information about the performance of your disks, and enables you to export or share the given reports with just a few clicks.
Simply select the disk you wish to analyze and the utility will provide you with the report you need. You will learn details about the disk's health status, its temperature, the current transfer rate, and many others.
The only time the program didn't work well was when I tried to analyze the performance of a USB stick. For some reason, the utility failed to identify the connected device and reveal the disk health info I needed. This was a singular event as the tool displayed plenty of useful details regarding the rest of the connected data storage containers.
Another thing you need to consider is that, even though it comes with a help guide and an intuitive interface, it might not be suitable for beginner PC users. Some of the offered information indicates that the users needs to have a certain level of knowledge regarding hard disk properties and functioning.
Briefly, this Windows utility helps you prevent data loss due to hard disk problems and provides you with detailed info about your local and external drives. So, it's worth giving it a try if none of the aforementioned flaws mean anything to you.
v5.7 [Jan 14, 2021]
Improvements and new features:
- Added option: Include problem overview in alerts (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only).
- Added option: Alert about problematic drive(s) only (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only).
- Added links to text descriptions: show links with underline and option to click on them to open in browser automatically.
- Added support of DELL PERC Software RAID controllers: DELL PERC S100/S300, DELL PERC S110, DELL PERC S130, DELL PERC S140: detect all connected hard disks/ssds and their health, temperature and status information (configured as RAID or standalone).
- Added support of Broadcom 9500 series Tri-mode SAS / SATA / nvme RAID controllers: detect SATA / SAS / nvme RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of drives managed by Broadcom 95xx RAID controller, configured as RAID.
- Added support of WD BLACK AN1500 nvme SSD: display real health, wearout, lifetime writes, S.M.A.R.T. status of ssds.
- Added support of highpoint 7505 nvme RAID controller: detect the status information of nvme ssds used in standalone and RAID mode.
- Added support of ROG RAIDR Express pcie: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information.
- Added support of ORICO 3559U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure.
- Added support of Yottamaster 4-bay and FS5U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure.
- Added support of KIOXIA EXCERIA SATA / nvme ssds.
- Added health display for LITEON ECE Dell-specific ssds.
- Added support of Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB nvme SSD.
- Added support of Crucial CT500P1SSD8 / CT1000P1SSD8, Micron 9300 Max (Micron nvme driver).
- Added support of ATP AF8GUD3-WAAXX, AF16GUD3-WAAXX, AF32GUD3-WAAXX industrial SD cards.
- Added support of ADATA SE760 external SSD.
- Added support of raidsonic Icy Box IB-1817M-C31, raidsonic ICY BOX IB-1824ML-C31 nvme-USB adapter.
- Detect up to 240 hard disk drives/ssds.
- Added support of updated Realtek USB-nvme firmware.
- Added support of OWC Aura SSD: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information.
- Added support of AXE Memory external SSD.
- Added support of Bulldozer, AFOX ssds.
Improved hardware support:
- Improvements, detection fixes for latest Windows Insider Preview builds.
- Improved compatibility with Intel Optane configurations.
- Improved support of Samsung 980 PRO series ssds.
- Improved display of lifetime writes with HP RAID configuration.
- Improved health/status display of ADATA SX8100, XPG Spectrix S40 nvme ssds.
- Improved detection with LSI / Avago / Broadcom / DELL / IBM / Intel SAS RAID controllers.
- Improved health reporting with Patriot Burst, Silicon Power ssds.
- Improved power on time reporting for Toshiba MK2565GSX.
- Improved compatibility with various ADATA ssds (650/750/760/800 series).
- Improved compatibility with Intel VROC and Micron 2300 nvme ssds.
- Improved detection and status / power on time reporting of WD SAS hard disks.
- Improved health display and reporting for WD Green / WD Blue series ssds.
- Improved support of LSI megaraid 9460 tri-mode (nvme/SAS/SATA) RAID controller.
- Minor corrections for SK Hynix, Sandisk ssds, Silicon Power ssds, XPG SPECTRIX S40, Patriot P210.
- Improved support of Startech S352BU33RER, ORICO 9548RU3, CFI-B8283ERGG external multi-drive / RAID enclosures.
- Improved detection and reporting of different Kingspec ssds, INTEL SSDSC2BF180A5L, Micron 550 SSD.
- Improved detection and reporting of White Label WL500 hard disks.
- Improved detection of RAID 10 arrays on Intel RAID controllers.
- Improved detection of SATA hard disks / ssds with AMD Bottom RAID controller driver 9.3.
- Improved detection of SATA hard disks / ssds with AMD storemi 2.0 driver 9.4.
- Improved detection with AMD RAID controller (scsiport) driver under Windows XP.
- Improved detection of maxdigital hard disk drives.
- Improved power on time display of Hitachi SAS hard disks (HUH721010AL5200).
- Improved hard disk status, health, temperature detection with MD4000GBDS hard disks.
- Improved support of Swissbit industrial M.2 SATA SSD.
- Improved support of Lenovo WD4001FYYG SAS hard disk.
- Improved health calculation for nvme ssds.
- Improved and extended detection of Intel VROC ssds in nvme SSD RAID configurations with higher number of ssds.
- Improved detection of HP Smart Array RAID controllers when multiple arrays configured on same physical disk drives.
- Improved compatibility with HFS1T9G32FEH SSD, SSDPR-CX400-256 SSD, Silicon Power SSD, Toshiba ssds.
- Improved support and lifetime writes display of several LITEON ssds.
- Improved compatibility and detection performance with LSI SAS3 HBA.
- Improved support of 4Kn SATA hard disk drives, showing "4Kn" on the Information page.
- Display warning upon possible compatibility issue if 4Kn drive used on older system.
- Improved compatibility with Intel SSDSCKKB240G8R, Intel SSDSC2KB019T7R, THNSF81D92CSE.
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