(PC) Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Edition for FREE

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Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a hard disk monitoring software with support of HDD/SSD drives. 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 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.

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  jv on 21/09/2014 - 00:48

  +2

  It's free more often than it's not….

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    Gnostikos on 21/09/2014 - 01:47

    +2

    The trial version has always been free and has no restrictions on the length of use though some features like automated alerts and benchmarking aren't available.

    The Standard version I believe has those missing features that the trial version omits; there's also a Professional version.

    Regardless, I'd recommend Crystal Disk Info.

    In my experience, Crystal Disk Info is the only SMART monitoring tool that is continually updated to support the correct reading of new SMART attributes (such as those on SSDs, including manufacturer-specific attributes) and to support newer storage firmware functionality as well as supporting a wider variety of storage configurations (proper detection of RAID, SCSI-attached storage, multiple HDD partitions, etc.)

    It also can display raw data values in hexadecimal and decimal formats, so it's not so confusing to read SMART attributes unlike in a lot of other HDD tools like Speccy or HD Tune.

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      GreatWhiteHunter on 21/09/2014 - 03:24

      Crystal Disk Info is a poor substitute IMHO.
      I base this on the fact it has very poor support for USB devices compared to most other decent hard drive monitoring tools.

      No surprise I disagree with Amar who has a lot of confidence in his own knowledge…

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        Gnostikos on 21/09/2014 - 15:19

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        I base this on the fact it has very poor support for USB devices compared to most other decent hard drive monitoring tools.

        More often than not that's solely due to the USB controller in the external enclosure not passing the data needed for S.M.A.R.T.

        Nevertheless, I've yet to personally see an external HDD that Crystal Disk Info couldn't detect properly. In the Advanced Feature menu of Crystal Disk Info you can enable Advanced Disk Search and change the controller/logic support to enable detection of a wider variety of non-standard I/O interfaces.

        If you were referring to USB Flash Drives; obviously they do not support S.M.A.R.T. monitoring.

        Crystal Disk Info is straightforward and no-nonsense; at a glance it'll give you an accurate snapshot of drive health. Nothing more, nothing less. It's ideal for less-than-computer-literate users. It's also updated extremely frequently to add support for newer storage mediums/manufacturers; more so than any other HDD monitoring tool.

        HDD Sentinel has a convoluted interface that defaults to confusing hexadecimal values and contains a whole host of needless features if you're just wanting to anticipate drive failure.

        No surprise I disagree with Amar who has a lot of confidence in his own knowledge…

        My heart is breaking.

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        PVA on 21/09/2014 - 17:15

        @Amar89:
        Thanks Amar, what one do you use? Crystal has 4 versions..
        Standard Edition 2.9 MB
        Shizuku Edition [Simple&Update] 11 MB
        Shizuku Edition [Full] 52 MB
        Shizuku Edition [Ultimate] 120 MB

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        Gnostikos on 21/09/2014 - 22:39

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        @PVA: Standard. The others are just differently skinned but have the same functionality.

        Your AV software may give you a false positive warning about the optional and harmless Adware that the installer offers but rest assured it's nothing to worry about (the download links do state: Installer Edition (exe) with OpenCandy (Ads)). Just make sure not to keep hitting "Next" so you can decline the installer's adware offer.