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Product Description
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.

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 hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to hard disk problems.

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. For more information, please read how hard disk S.M.A.R.T. works and why Hard Disk Sentinel is different.

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.

This way even a small HDD problem can’t be missed. The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) hard disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.

If you are using a computer equipped with at least one hard disk or solid state disk and you want to ensure that your data will be available any time, then the answer is YES. Hard Disk Sentinel is especially designed to you if:

you are using multiple hard disks / SSDs in your computer (IDE / Serial ATA (S-ATA, e-SATA) / SCSI / SAS / USB hard disks) or in an external enclosure
(check the hardware compatibility pages for the list of compatible hardware)
you are using a mobile / removable rack or enclosure with hard disk inside
you are using notebook computer
you are using server or desktop computers with high disk load
you want to maximize system stability, HDD performance and overall integrity, receive HDD alert on high temperature or low health
you do not want to lose your sensitive and valuable data, do not want to pay for HDD recovery
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    • +6

      Sounds like you know nothing.

      I use the paid version of Hard Disk Sentinel and its great. It has a long list of features that you can't get elsewhere. CrystalDiskmark and HD Tune are not suitable for anything but manually checking.

      I get emails when my hard drives overheat, it emails me when there is a serious problem like a bad sector and even a small issue like pending sectors.

      It actually saved me from losing data just recently. I got an email about pending sectors on the drive and started the automatic backup of the drive. I backed up the entire 2TB excluding one 200mb file.

      I actually checked other software during the backup and they did not see pending sectors as an issue.

      If I had waited until I remembered to check the health of my drives manually I would have lost a lot more data.

      • +1

        Couldn't agree more, a very useful bit of software

      • -5

        Windows 7 onwards has built-in hard drive monitoring and it will alert you that there is an imminent failure automatically.

        You should be keeping offline backups already. Prediction of drive failure is not a suitable backup solution.

        • Hahaha you are not very educated in this field are you?

          Windows will only report Reallocated Sectors Count once its at a certain point.

          It won't report Seek Error Rate, End-to-End Error Count, Reported Uncorrectable Errors, Current Pending Sector Count and many more.

          Windows will generally only be able to tell you that there is a problem when it is too late and you have lost data.

        • -3

          @samfisher5986: If these errors are within an allowable threshold as defined by the manufacturer then reporting is not required.

          This software can only warn you about an imminent failure once the values are out of allowable parameters too just as Windows does.

          More often or not, failure will occur before SMART data goes out of spec with enough warning.

          I can't believe that you would go as far as to suggest that I'm not educated in this field, yet you are the moron who uses this software instead of an actual backup.

        • -1

          @The Land of Smeg:

          Nice attempt at making it seem like you know something but you failed.

          Not only are you trying to hard to to be smart and failing you are making wrong assumptions about my lack of backups just to make yourself feel smarter.

          It seems like you need to do a lot of research on computers as well as some sort professional assistance.

        • @samfisher5986:

          It actually saved me from losing data just recently. I got an email about pending sectors on the drive and started the automatic backup of the drive. I backed up the entire 2TB excluding one 200mb file.

          If you are so smart why wasn't this data already backed up?

          I don't think that this has anything to do with lack of computer knowledge.

          You used this software to save your data which you would have lost because you didn't have an adequate backup.

          Lucky this software can predict 100% of imminent drive failures! Why do we even have backups when we can just get this software? /s

        • @The Land of Smeg:

          My backups are not run 24/7 as this is expensive to do and wastes electricity.

          You are welcome to post your 24/7 backup machine.. but I doubt you have one.

          Why don't you make a poll, how many people run 24/7 backup machines at home? You are not going to find many people…

        • @samfisher5986: I have a HP microserver whose sole purpose is to run 24/7 backups.

          But I still find software like this useful. Having a backup when a drive dies is one thing, but it is still useful to know that a drive will die BEFORE it dies so I can take preventative action to avoid downtime.

          I also run it on the backup server itself. It is completely, utterly useless for Windows to pop up a dialog box saying a drive failure is imminent if nobody happens to be staring at the screen (which doesn't exist as it's a headless machine). Software like this will send notification emails out to warn of an impending failure.

        • @eug:

          The issue with myself getting a HP Microserver or a NAS for example is my ever increasing storage requirements.

          I would need 9 hard drive slots and its only increasing. I just can't justify binning my current drives and replacing them with 8TB drives although this would solve my issue at least for a while.

          I get NBN in June this year anyway, my plan is to backup my 20TB of data to the cloud with the 40mbit upload from the NBN.

          Although as you mention its still very important to know when there is a problem.

        • @samfisher5986:

          I would need 9 hard drive slots and its only increasing.

          a microserver + JBOD enclosure?

          I've got 6 drives in mine and wish there was more space. I'm eagerly awaiting those 8TB drives too!

          I get NBN in June this year anyway

          Lucky you! It's probably another 5 years away for me. Sigh.

          my plan is to backup my 20TB of data to the cloud

          Why did you download the internet anyway?

        • @eug:

          Microserver + JBOD would work.. but still just doesn't seem practical.

          At the moment I just modified some old furniture and have regular internal hard drives in there with SATA > USB. I turn it on when I want to backup and then it gets turned off again.

          At least that way I avoid data loss to raid, PSU issues, lightning etc.

          Those 8TB drives look great, I can backup 3 hard drives with one of those :D.


          I guess my media PC is my hobby. 2800 movies and 400 TV Shows and counting.

        • @samfisher5986: You are welcome to post your 24/7 backup machine.. but I doubt you have one.

          For day-to-day I use Dropbox.

          I have a couple of 3TB portable drives. Whenever I have done something that I feel is critically important enough not to lose (including any file on Dropbox) I retrieve one of the drives from a safe location onsite and run a full backup (Just sync changed files since last backup on that drive using a Robocopy script I made), I then take that drive Offsite where I keep my second 3TB portable drive, take the second one back with me and run another full backup, and keep that drive Onsite for the next time I feel I need to run another one.

          I don't run a backup every day or every week but these are files that I'm willing to 'risk' being on Dropbox.

          Obviously you have a lot of data and I'm not going to speculate why you need 20TB or if all that porn is important enough to back up, but if you don't back it up then you should be prepared to take that risk that you could lose it all at any time. If it was important enough then you could find a backup solution.

          If you can afford that much storage that you can't afford to lose, then you can afford to back it up. Obviously you are not going to have 20TB worth of changes per day, so you can just back up the changed files on your backup run to save time and intermediate drives.

        • -1

          @The Land of Smeg:

          Well there you go, You have barely any data, of course you wouldn't understand.

    • +1

      I agree with you.
      Too many people think these deals are good when you simply don't need them. It's not 20 years ago when you maybe had a reason for the junk. I think people still think you need to tinker with the "engine" when it is simply not true in any modern os.

  • +9

    Be very, very careful when downloading promotional software from Windowsdeal, or any other 1-day giveaway events for that matter. Make sure to untick any promotional software (bloat) that comes with the installar package, and be on the lookout for any addons it may try to silently install.

    The previous deal on Freedom VPN tried to sneak in some Firefox addon (.xpi) into my browser.

    • +2

      This site looks really sketchy

  • what so different from this pro version?
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    the link is still valid

  • +2

    Great software. Email alerts are the best feature I think.

    Just a reminder, do NOT run the Update feature from within the app. It will upgrade it to 4.60 which will then enter trial mode. Only 4.40 is free.

  • I have the Stablebit Scanner which also monitors hard drives against failures…anyone know if the HDD sentinel is better?

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