Hard Disk Sentinel

Use case 2022
Use case 2023
HDD Monitoring Blog
Hard Disk Sentinel 6.20 (29/2/2024)
added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When custom threshold reached
right click on any attribute on the S.M.A.R.T. page to define custom alert threshold condition:
when Value or Data field is lower, lower or equal, higher, higher or equal, equal or not equal compared to configured threshold
added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk added/connected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert
added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk removed/disconnected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert
surface test functions can be used for SAS 4Kn drives formatted to non-standard sector sizes (4160 bytes/sector, 4224 bytes/sector)
added Slovenian language, thanks for Andraz Poje for the translation
added complete French help (thanks for Francois MORTEAU)
added support of Fusion ioMemory / ioScale SSDs: detect and report health, temperature, wearout, lifetime writes, usage statistics
added support of new combo USB-NVMe / USB-SATA external adapters
added support of various new industrial (micro) SD cards: detect card status, health, wearout and details about newer Innodisk, Swissbit, Greenliant SD cards
added support of QNAP QDA-A2AR RAID device (2x2.5" HDD/SSD to single drive): detect complete S.M.A.R.T. status of both drives in RAID configuration
added support of Silverstone DS223 2x SATA RAID box: detect status of both hard disks / SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, JBOD modes
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Use case
Hard Disk Sentinel 6.10 (9/2/2023)
re-designed new graphics, icons, added high resolution images for high DPI settings
changed colors and behaviour of user interface elements for improved visibility
added Windows 11 style hard disk icons (Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disk Icon Set) to show disk usage and the status based on Health %
Information page: display USB ID for easier identification of drives in Windows Safely Remove Hardware devices list
Information page: show device type: fixed disk or removable with "surprise remove possible" or "safely remove required"
detect and report USB version and generation for USB hard disks, USD SSDs, USD pendrives, USB-NVMe adapters
additional information in text description:
show warning when USB 2.0 connection limits the performance of the disk drive
show warning when USB 2.0 connection can degrade the disk drive due to insufficient power
show warning when the disk drive reached the end of designed lifetime and the chance of sudden failure may be higher
show warning when the disk drive seems fake USB pendrive / SSD where the stored data may be damaged/corrupted
added support of Kingston DataTraveler MAX : detect health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status of Kingston DataTraveler MAX series pendrives
added support of Terramaster D5-300 RAID enclosure: detect health, temperature and complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of drives in RAID configuration
added support of Oyen Digital Mobius Pro 2C RAID device: detect and display disk status, health, temperature information
added support of Oyen Digital MOBIUS 5-drive (RAID) enclosure: detect status of hard disk drives in RAID or standalone configuration
added support of I-O DATA HDS2-UT dual (RAID) enclosure: detect status of hard disk drives in RAID configuration
added support of new AMD RAID driver 9.3.2: detect SATA and NVMe drive status in AMD RAID configuration on AMD x670
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Hard Disk Sentinel 6.01 (15/3/2022)
fixed Health % display for some Sandisk SDSSDH3 solid state drives

Hard Disk Sentinel 6.00 (8/3/2022)
new function: Disk menu -> Surface test -> Quick Fix (targeted repair of problematic sectors)
Verify which area(s) of the disk drive reported problems and written recently then diagnose, repair specifically those
(and nearby) sectors and critical system areas. The test forces the disk drive to repair any problematic (pending, weak)
sectors: restore the status to good or reallocate (replace from spare area) if required to prevent further use of
the original sector (Pro version only)
new function for advanced users (PRO version only): Disk menu -> Device Specific Information to detect and display additional details including:
- Power on time when last error detected/logged by the hard disk/SSD (registered version only)
- Time since last error detected/logged by the hard disk/SSD (registered version only)
- Sector(s) where errors happened previously and their location by block number on the disk surface map (registered version only)
- ATA error log: last known errors, their description, registers, error details, last commands before error
- ATA self test log: last disk self tests, self test results and details (registered version only)
- ATA drive statistics: lifetime details, errors, temperature statistics
- ATA drive statistics: rotating media statistics (hard disk drives) or solid state device statistics (SSDs)
- ATA drive disk utilization and absolute limits for amount of reads/writes and temperature limits (if defined by the manufacturer)
- ATA drive temperature statistics, last known recorded temperature values
- ATA drive additional features and functionality supported by the hard disk drive/SSD
- NVMe error log
- NVMe self test log: last disk self tests, test results and possible error details (registered version only)
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Q&A Knowledge Base
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70 (19/1/2021)
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
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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.61 (12/3/2020)
fixed possible BSOD when Intel 750 series NVMe SSD (SSDPEDMW400G4 / SSDPEDMW800G4) used with Intel RST driver 17.8
fixed possible increase of "Number of error information log entries" count on Samsung NVMe SSDs
added further protection against problem in Intel AHCI driver 11.0, 11.2
added support for GEIL ZENITH SSDs
detect eMMC information on additional eMMC devices
improved compatibility with LaCie 2Big Quadra v3
improved reporting of failing SSDs
improved NVMe sector size detection
improved support for SK HYNIX GOLD SSDs
improved support of LEXAR SATA SSDs, PLEXTOR SSDs, Sandisk X300 SSD
non-English language file updates

Hard Disk Sentinel 5.60 (12/2/2020)
added support of LSI / Broadcom 9440 Tri-mode SAS / SATA / NVMe RAID controllers:
detect NVMe RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of NVMe M.2 SSDs managed by
Broadcom 9440 RAID controller, configured as NVMe RAID (in addition to SATA RAID, SAS RAID)
added support of Highpoint RocketRAID 3740: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS
hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
added support of Adaptec SmartRAID 3152-8i Controller: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS
hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
added support of Lenovo 730 series RAID controller: detect hard disk drive status used in RAID configuration
detect and report NVMe Namespace Information: total addressable sectors, current sector size,
LBA format list (possible sector sizes) with performance
added function to reset workload counters for Samsung PM883 / PM863a SSDs
added support of KINGSTON SEDC450 series
added support of KINGSTON KC600 series
added support of Seagate Nytro SSDs, Innovation IT SSDs
added support of Realtek RTL9210 NVMe-USB adapters
added support of KESU USB hard disk / SSD enclosure, JAYCAR XC4687 USB HDD docking station
added support of Raidsonic IB-1817M-C31 USB - NVMe SSD adapter with updated firmware
added support of XT-XINTE USB 3.1 Type-C Adapter USB C 10Gbps USB-NVMe adapter
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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.50 (11/7/2019)
added support of Intel Virtual RAID on CPU (Intel VROC): detect NVMe RAID array members, complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of NVMe M.2 SSDs managed by Intel VROC controller
added support of HighPoint NVMe RAID controllers: detect NVMe RAID array members, complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of NVMe M.2 SSDs managed by HighPoint NVMe RAID controllers
added support of HighPoint SSD7101A-1 NVMe RAID controller
added support of Lenovo 530-8I RAID adapter: detect complete S.M.A.R.T. status of SATA/SAS hard disk drives configured as RAID
added support of ThinkSystem 930-8I 2GB Flash PCIe 12Gb Adapter: detect complete S.M.A.R.T. status of SATA/SAS hard disk drives configured as RAID
added support of Dell PowerEdge Boot Optimized Storage Solution - BOSS: detect RAID array members, complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of SSDs managed by the BOSS RAID controller
added support for MOBIUS 5-bay RAID hard disk enclosure: detect complete status of SATA hard disks configured as JBOD or RAID
added support of ICY DOCK MB662U3-2S R1 RAID external enclosure: detect status information about RAID disk members
added support of Kingston Enterprise SSDs: DC500R and DC500M
added detection of eMMC storage devices used in tablets: detect and display eMMC specific information and self-monitoring status. Display eMMC health (if supported by the eMMC device)
(THANKS so much for Tim Schuerewegen for his excellent work)
added support for Swissbit industrial SD cards, ATP industrial SD cards, Kingston SDCIT industrial SD cards: detect status information, health and statistics
(THANKS so much for Tim Schuerewegen for his excellent work)
added support of Minerva RAID R2056A adapter (M.2 B+M notch to SATA 7pin x2 RAID Card)
added support of various Apacer SATA SSDs
fixed health display for Western Digital WD BLUE SSDs
improved support of WD and Hitachi Helium-filled (He) hard disk drives
completely redesigned HighPoint SATA/SAS RAID controller support: better detection of RAID array configuration,
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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.40 (20/3/2019)
added option to configure offsets for SCSI, SAS hard disk drives/SSDs, NVMe SSDs, industrial SD memory cards
added watchdog extension: protection against unwanted closing/termination after running for multiple days
detect and display new problems, degradations of SCSI, SAS disk drives on the Log page
improved and extended Log page for IDE, SATA, USB drives: display additional problems, degradations
it is possible to sort disks in Load status of offline disks window, multiple disk test selector window, authentic report selector window
it is possible to find (CTRL+F, F3) in Load status of offline disks window, multiple disk test selector window, authentic report selector window
added support of Lenovo 720I SATA/SAS RAID controllers: detect complete status of SATA/SAS hard disks, SSDs managed by such RAID controllers
added/improved support of HP RAID controllers: Smart Array H240nr, Smart Array P240nr, Smart Array P542D: detect complete status of SATA/SAS hard disks, SSDs managed by such RAID controllers
added support of HPE P/E-Class SR Gen10 SATA/SAS RAID controllers (tested: HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR Gen10)
added support of Intel RSP3TD160F SAS RAID controller: detect complete status of SATA/SAS hard disks, SSDs managed
by this RAID controller
completely redesigned and fixed drive order, logical drive detection with Intel, LSI, Dell, IBM RAID controllers
completely redesigned VIA RAID controller detection: detect and display logical/physical disks better
completely redesigned JMicron-RAID detection: detect complete disk status, RAID members and their health, temperature, self-monitoring status 10-40 times faster than previously.
added support of Kingston SUV500 series SSDs
added support of Crucial BX500 series SSDs: display health and status information correctly
added support for ASMedia ASM236X USB -> NVMe bridge: detect complete NVMe M.2 SSD status over USB connection
added support of USB-NVMe adapters with JMicron JMS583 chip: detect and display complete NVMe status information
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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.30 (17/7/2018)
improved installation when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active
display notification and ask for whitelisting when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active
which prevents access/testing of disks and detection of disk status information
detect and display TRIM status for SATA, NVMe SSDs correctly again after April 2018 update of Windows 10
displaying additional NVMe functions / optional features
improved connection and on-line registration, activation
improved report sending via Report menu -> Send test report to developer option
improved / changed automatic update
manual update asks for confirmation of the update when new version found
improved Intel RAID detection, LSI RAID detection
HP RAID: improved reporting of SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utilization. Added Remaining Days Until Wearout value to S.M.A.R.T. page
added support of Community OFA NVMe driver for NVMe SSDs
added support of Apacer APS25AF4120G SSD (SM130-25)
display health status correctly of new Kingston A400 series SSDs (may reported 0% on the beginning of lifetime)
improved NVMe M.2 SSD detection on Windows 7
improved detection of external RAID boxes
improved health of various Toshiba SSDs
improved support of new Crucial SSDs
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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20 (23/3/2018)
Improvements and new features:
added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices
(see
How to: monitor Network Attached Storage (NAS) status )
added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related
to disks and storage subsystem.
By this option, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro detects if Windows saves errors/warnings to SYSTEM event log and
report recent problems detected while Hard Disk Sentinel is running/monitoring
and use them in calculation of health to show issues, degradations (registered Pro version)
display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection
added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite,
Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports
detection and reporting new ATA standards and new ATA / Serial ATA features on Information page:
Device sleep (DevSleep), Service interrupt, Device encrypts all data, IDLE IMMEDIATE,
Nominal form factor, NCQ Streaming and autosense, Rebuild assist, Hybrid information
display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs
displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page
displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives)
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