Hard Disk Sentinel Overview 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..." FIBERdownload.com Editorial team 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. Check out my other items! Note : You will get CD and key . No box shipment. Resold under permission of Manufacturer. Track Page Views With Auctiva's FREE Counter