Perisian - Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 4.60.4 Build.7377 Beta + patch-MPT (IBM)

Hard Disk Sentinel:

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. 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 and in external enclosures (USB hard disks / e-SATA hard disks). Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.

No need to use separate tools to verify internal hard disks, external hard disks, SSDs, disks in RAID arrays as these are all included in a single software.

Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk drive / HDD status including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) values for all hard 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 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.

How does Hard Disk Sentinel work?

HDD Sentinel runs in the background and verifies SSD / HDD health status by inspecting the SMART status of the disk(s). If an error is found or unexpected behaviour is detected, it warns the user about the current situation and also can perform appropriate actions (for example, start an automatic backup).

Usually, hard disk health status may slowly decline, from day to day. The SMART monitoring technology can predict HDD failure by examining the critical values of the disk drive. Compared to other software, Hard Disk Sentinel detects and reports every disk problem. It is much more sensitive to disk failures and can display better and more detailed information about hard disk expected life and the problems found (if any). This is a more sophisticated way to predict failures than the "traditional" method: checking S.M.A.R.T. attribute thresholds and values only.

The software displays the current hard disk temperature and logs maximum and average HDD temperatures. This may be used to check the maximum temperature under high hard disk load.

Improvements and new features:

-Disk -> Short self test, Extended self test options available for SCSI and SAS hard disks

-option to disable "Always-on-top" behaviour of Status Windows (Configuration -> Status Window)

-double click on the installation date on Preferences page to configure installation date for the correspind hard disk / SSD and -display daily average writes/reads based on that installation date

-improved and faster startup of disk surface tests on drives with lower health

-improved text description and improved report for hard disks / SSDs

-improved backup projects and file handling

-advanced health detection and reporting on various hard disk models (Samsung, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba, Western Digital)

-added Japanese language support (thanks Kyo for the translation).

Changes in version 4.60.4 Beta:

- Added support of JMicron RAID controller JMS56X Hardware: Detection of hard Disk Status When RAID / JBOD / standalone configuration of hard disks

- Added support of Raidon GR2660-B3 Dual bay external RAID enclosure

- Added support of Startech S32SAT3R Internal Drive Mounted Dual SATA RAID adapter

- Added Korean Language support (thanks to pCsOrI for the Translation)

- Improved menu display and Readability on Dark Windows Themes

- fixed: Japanese character set HTML Report Encoding

Instructions:

1.Unpack and install

2.Run patch (as admin if needed)

3.Done.

Hard Disk Sentinel Pro 4.60.4