There are many ways and software tools to recover data lost due to a disk malfunction or failure, but there is only one way not to get that far – monitor your hard disks to detect any potential damage well before it happens. Hard Disk Sentinel Pro is a tool designed for IT professionals and knowledgeable users alike who want to keep an eye on their external and internal drives’ behavior and performance and thus foresee any potential malfunction ahead of time.
Hard Disk Sentinel Pro is useful on many levels. As an “information tool”, its tabbed main interface provides you with at-a-glance information on your disks’ performance, health, estimated remaining lifetime, temperature, specific product data, a list with all the S.M.A.R.T. values, numerical and graphical information about your disks’ activity and transfer rates, etc.
As a “warning tool”, the program offers IT managers a large combination of technical data and graphical information on your disks’ health and overall status for you to interpret and analyze. Users with a different background will benefit from the program’s exhaustive range of graphs and alert messages, which will let them know immediately if anything is not going as it should.
As a “disk testing tool”, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro counts with a long list of self-tests to check certain hardware components, such as the heads, the servo, the internal buffer, etc.; to verify the entire disk’s surface, bad-sector re-allocation included; to verify the disk noise, the temperature, and the seek time performance, and even to perform an intensive stress-test. Additionally, to all these tests, the program also offers solutions to fix certain hard disk problems, usually those related to potential surface damages.
Finally, as a “data loss prevention” tool, this high-end utility provides you with full backup functionality with various automatic backup options, including backing up data from remote computers in a network. Besides, it comes with a useful shutdown feature that will turn off your computer automatically in case of disk failure, disk overheat, or any hint of disk health degradation.
The list of features does not end here – this is but a summary of Hard Disk Sentinel Pro’s main functionality. The rest is for you to discover. Except for a few remote disk management functions, this Professional version of the program mirrors the superior Enterprise edition. Other less demanding users may want to opt for the Standard edition, which includes the program’s basic functionality. In any case, I cannot recommend highly enough to anyone interested in HDD monitoring to download and install the Trial edition and see the wealth of features and functions that the program offers for themselves.
v5.7
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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