Hard Disk Sentinel
DESCRIPTION:
Detect Hard Drive Issues Before Catastrophe Strikes
Hard Disk Sentinel is a hard disk monitoring software with highest
possible support of HDD/SSD/SSHD (hybrid) 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, 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 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.
Main Features
Easy to use interface
All information are displayed in the main window of the application.
Quick controls allow easy navigation to access all hard disks,
partitions and different information. Intuitive user interface elements
display information by using green/yellow/red color to indicate the
level of problem. Detailed text description and context sensitive help
guides the user thru the features and options.
1. Install > 2. Configure > 3. Stay protected
Just install, configure alerts and your system is now safe.
You’ll be notified about the problems – but if everything
is correct, Hard Disk Sentinel just sits on tray and displays current
status. The data is protected 24 hours daily, 7 days a week.
Instant S.M.A.R.T. analysing
Hard Disk Sentinel can communicate with all IDE, Serial ATA, NVMe,
SCSI, SAS and most USB hard disk drives, SSD and hybrid drives (SSHD)
to detect their status and temperature. Hard disk status are displayed
immediately as you launch the application, there is no need to analyse
hard disks for a long period. It displays the current and maximum
temperature for the hard disk. It reads all general and vendor-specific
attributes and monitor their values. For advanced users, all raw data
are displayed also including power-on time and number of read/write
errors. Hard Disk Sentinel interprets the performance and fitness
related S.M.A.R.T. values and displays the calculated Performance and
Health percentage, total power on time and estimated lifetime remaining.
Hard Disk Hardware and Software Tests
By using Hard Disk Sentinel, it is possible to start hardware hard disk
self tests. These tests can be used to effectively find all hard disk
problems because built-in hardware methods are used to verify hard disk
components (for example heads, servo, internal buffer in theShort self
test). The Extended self test also verifies the complete hard disk
surface, finds and repairs all weak areas and re-allocates the possible
bad sectors. This is not possible with the software-based hard disk
surface scan methods (for example, by using scandisk).
Seek Noise Test
Seek Test – to verify hard disk noise, seek time performance and
temperature. Longer tests can be used as very deep and intensive
stress-tests for the hard disk and verify if additional cooling is
required.
Logging
Hard Disk Sentinel logs all degradations in all SMART parameters and
issues alerts in such cases to maximise data protection. For example,
if a new bad sector is found on your hard disk, you will be notified.
Alerts
Hard Disk Sentinel has wide range of alerts upon different problems. It
can send e-mail (with e-mail->SMS gateway it can be SMS warning to
your mobile), network message, can play sound alerts and so.There is an
option to send daily emails about current status.
Shutdown
Offers option to shut down the computer on hard disk failure, HDD
overheat or health degradation. This option can be used in combination
of the alerts to prevent further data loss.
Hard Disk Details
Detects and displays every information about the hard disk, from the
revision number and buffer size to all features it has. The maximum
available and current transfer modes are also displayed.
HDD status in Windows Explorer
View the current health status and used space in Windows Explorer or in
any other application, so you’ll always know the amount of used
space for each partitions and the hard disk drive condition.
Information on demand
Current hard disk temperatures and health are displyed on the system
tray and can be displayed in a small status window, the desktop itself
or in a sidebar gadget (under Windows Vista or newer operating system).
Average and maximum temperatures are logged for all hard disks and
these informations are displayed in graphs for statistical purposes.
Hard Disk Performance
Logs how much data were read from or written to the hard disk. Displays
current transfer rates for both reading and writing and estimates the
maximum available (theoretical) transfer rate for a particular hard
disk.
Hard Disk Partitions
Displays partitions for each physical hard disks and type and usage
informations about them so you cannot run out of space. Hard Disk
Sentinel sends this information automatically in alert/status messages.
Acoustic Management
Offers option to control the acoustic level of IDE/S-ATA hard disk. It
is possible to increase performance or make the hard disk drives more
silent. Unique feature: control the acoustic level of your external USB
hard disk (if your USB enclosure is equipped with one of the proper
USB-ATA bridge chips which supports this feature).
Clock Synchronization
It offers option to synchronize the PC clock with an atomic clock via NTP (Network Time Protocol).