Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS HDD monitoring and HDD analysis application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the HDD inside the computer or in an external enclosure (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 today) values for each hard disks. Also it measures the hard 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 HDD data loss because it has the most sensitive hard 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.

Revision History version 2.90 - 26/6/2009


random seek test function (File menu or by quick button or from Acoustic Management window) to test hard disk noise, seek performance and temperature during long test and excessive usage

detection of disks configured to RAID arrays on ARECA RAID controllers

detects up to 24 disks on 3ware/AMCC and Areca RAID controllers

detection of disks connected to Silicon Image PATA and SATA controllers

detection of disks connected to NVidia NForce, VIA, ITE controllers

detection of new USB drives

detection of different SSD devices

more details and features of SSD devices

right click over list of drives to hide drives or select button sizes

added hints when mouse is moved over list of drives

+/- icon symbol, if one or more attribute offset is enabled and they affect the displayed information

many user interface fixes and improvements

improved and more flexible projects (ignore files in use, allow file-masks in e-mail/FTP projects, etc.)

improved reports

500+ new hard disks in database

fixed: copy alerts to clipboard was not working properly

fixed: disk log attribute issues

various minor bug fixes



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