Hard Disk Sentinel Professional
(HDSentinel) is a HDD/SSD monitoring and analysis application. Its goal
is to find, test, diagnose and repair 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.
Quote from a review
where Hard Disk Sentinel received Editor's choice award:
"The price of one 1.000 GB HDD 130 USD
The price of your work saved files - hundreds or, maybe,
thousands of hours
A solution to guard all this stuff : PRICELESS
This is the way I would describe Hard Disk Sentinel after
some days of intensive testing.
Capable of monitoring fixed or portable hard disk drives ( USB
), Hard Disk Sentinel tests, finds and repairs errors and
failures that might appear. It is the perfect data protection
solution that complete its tasks in real time..."
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 disk health rating
system which is extremely sensitive to disk problems. This way even a
small HDD problem can't be missed. The Professional version has
scheduled and automatic (on-problem) disk backup options to prevent data
loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete
also.
Screenshots
Main window with menu and quick
buttons for faster navigation. Health history graph and textual
description about hard disk status.
Store and display S.M.A.R.T.
attribute history. Short description of each S.M.A.R.T.
parameter is displayed. It is possible to control which
parameters should be used to determine disk status and set
offset values for the parameters.
Surface test configuration with
detailed information about the tests
Surface test options to fine-tune
test settings and maximise disk testing and repair efficiency.
Surface of a failed drive with
low health
Surface of a perfect drive with
100% health
Temperature and actual transfer
rate measured and displayed
Disk Contents Inspector lets you
to peek the sectors stored on the disk
Adjust Free Fall Control
Sensitivity of the drive (if supported)
Configure custom temperature
thresholds for different drives
Easily configure the folder(s)
for both scheduled and panic backup
Lots of file synchronization,
filtering and transfer options are available
Integrate the software to your
existing system and protect with password
Panic backup projects to be
executed when there is a problem with any or a specific hard
disk
Alerts: different actions for
yellow and red levels.
Options to configure thresholds
for different levels and associate colors on the tray icon for
the levels. It is also possible to display condition sign on the
tray icon.
Test drive seek time performance,
noise level, temperature. Useful to verify after acoustic
management and stress-test hard disks with a longer test.
Verify disk information online:
compare details with other values received in reports
S.M.A.R.T. offsets lets you
ignore previous problems and calibrate temperature levels
Comprehensive support for SSD
devices including SSD specific information
Remote access disk information
from web browser, even on a mobile phone or PDA
Authentication required to
prevent unauthorized access
Make the drive more silent or let
it perform with fastest performance. Test noise and performance
levels immediately!
Detailed statistics about
temperature, including highest temperature ever measured by the
drive (including the period where the software was not active)
Option to display information
directly on desktop
Intuitive tray icon showing
temperature with the colors defined. Detailed information
displayed in the drive hint
Displays SSD specific attributes
and health based on SSD specific methods
Right click to select the size of
buttons and option to hide drives, devices
System Requirements
Pentium or compatible CPU
32 megabytes of system memory
15 megabytes of hard disk
space
Windows operating system
(Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista,
Windows 7, Windows Home Server) 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)
One or more hard disk or
solid state disk with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II), SCSI,
SAS, USB interface. USB
hard disk support depends on the USB-ATA bridge chips.
Other type of external disks (USB or IEEE 1394) are NOT
supported because the hard disk controller chip in the
external enclosure does not support the detection of
S.M.A.R.T. information.
Note:
RAID arrays usually do not provide S.M.A.R.T. informations.
However, standalone hard disks connected to standard RAID
controllers (for example motherboard integrated RAID
controllers, like NVidia, Intel RAID) provide this information
most of the time. If you have good or bad experiences or
compatibility problems, please
let us know.
Note:
The software can read and display all such information about
hard disks inside the arrays if the RAID array is controlled by
a
compatible RAID controller card. It is also possible to
manage these drives like standalone drives.
Note:
hard disk controller drivers can also cause incompatibility
problems and this case not all hard disk information may be
displayed. For more information, please check the
compatibility
page and for some solutions, please read the
information in the F.A.Q.