Updated version of the last freebie.
Direct download link - credit g1
Hard Disk Sentinel monitors and analyzes your hard disk and solid state drives, giving you valuable feedback on the health of the drive, any performance degradations, and warning of impending failure. With Hard Disk Sentinel, you'll be able to find, test, diagnose, and even repair disk drive issues before they escalate to catastrophic status.
working fine, no probs at all
Updated from the previous freebie 5.61… can't see any difference, but thanks!
Is it normal that my Windows did not want to download it?
Yes. Mine did that too. Because it's a zip file which could contain anything.
Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Edition - Lifetime use and no upgrades (install only during promotion day) v5.70 - PC
Install within 18hours?
it states:
"Also, please install this product before 1st of August 2022 in order for the application to become unlocked. If you install it on or after 1st of August 2022, the application will not be unlocked and you will need a registration key to unlock it."
You can just temporarily set back system time to before 1 Aug 2022 when installing after that date.
This promotion has been downloaded too many times from this link.?? - G1's link to a zip worked..
Any use for an ssd?
Definatly.
Great program for reporting the health of any drive
Download link not working.
Suddenly feels like early 2000's again.
Why would you need this software lol
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Hard drives last forever XDDDDD
Who would need software like this XDDDDDD
XDD It's XDDDD 2022 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
is this you acting like it's the early 2000's and you're 8 years old?
He's mocking the comment from someone who was thinking like an 8 year old.
i.e. This warns you if HDD temp goes too high and/or start dropping sectors, giving you at least some chance of copying important files over to another drive before it dies completely. Not sure why anyone would think that's a dumb move.
@[Deactivated]: "Not sure why anyone would think that's a dumb move."
Probably because we have countless cloud backup options and NAS's.
The app isn't really going to do anything..
Probably because we have countless cloud backup options and NAS's.
Which you have to pay for, therefore many of us don't have. This software is $0.
The app isn't really going to do anything.
Sorry, but that's one opinion, not fact - and from my experience, that one opinion = complete nonsense. Why? Because it warned me a drive was losing sectors. Two days later it was completely unreadable. The day before I copied about 70% of its files before it karked it. It also continually displays HDD temperature/s. When that drive began losing sectors the temp shot up. So temp increase is an early warning a drive may be about to fail. Both of these points are far from: "isn't really going to do anything."
I've actually owned this forever, just running the free versions that were given away a few times over the years. But i actually just went and bought a full license to give thanks to the author for all the years usage even though i dint "need" anything more than the free one. :)
Why would you need this software lol
To monitor the health of your drives.
Applications like this, are how you know when to swap out your drives. All drives fail eventually - you need to know that it's happening, so you can take corrective action.
Download link working
This promotion has been downloaded too many times from this link.
You can get this download by making a purchase from this page.
Are you guys sure this is legit? They don't send a registration code. The installer is an "unlocked" version. Then the file itself is not even from HDSentinel website.
This app has been used many times by ozbargainers via this type of post.
Pretty sure no one has had a bad word to say about it.
Run it through an online virus scanner before you install it if you're unsure.
That website triggered a lot of warning signs. The download itself was blocked by chrome cause it was served over http instead of https. I'm stupid so I ended up installing it to upgrade my version anyway. Weird that you have to install the program before a certain date for it to be "activated".
I'm not sure how to use most of the functionality but it's been helpful suddenly seeing one of my HDDs health drop to 12% so I knew to move the data to another HDD ahead of time. For my use case which is just seeing the HDD health drop, I can probably just use CrystalDiskInfo and set up Windows scheduler to periodically run it.
Turns out CrystalDiskInfo has a "resident" mode so I'm just going to use that. Uninstalled HDD Sentinel cause I don't like that it went over HTTP.
Yes CrystalDiskInfo has an auto start and resident mode
It can also stop older hard drives from parking their heads all the time by putting them into performance mode.
It also has overheat alarms and many other features.
CrystalDiskInfo Is also very regularly updated, great product.
Hard to trust a company that serves executables over http
Even when said executable is digitally signed to prevent and detect tampering during transit, which Windows automatically checks when you attempt to run it?
Weird that you have to install the program before a certain date for it to be "activated".
That's common with free software from sites like this. It's a time limited offer that's all. It's been free many times before. I guess the idea is to bring you to the site to try other software, encourage you to pay for it or a better or supported version, etc.
You can always change your computer date back to reinstall it in the future.
If you use samsung drive, just get the magician.
I've been using this for a few years (bought v5.50) and while it's useful for monitoring normal HDDs, or temps and SMART of newer solid state drives, it won't necessary warn you when SSD/NVME drives are about to die as they can go without any warning. It happened to me, HDD Sentinel simply logged that "Drive went offline" and last stats were still 100% healthy. I also use the free Samsung Magician for my Samsung drives.
Well of course it isn't magic. It can only warn you if the smart data detects the drive is degraded. It's only as good as the manufacturer's routines are at picking up failing drives, and drives will fail without warning sometimes. Use the best, most well known brands you can afford if you care about reliability but there's no substitute for backing up your data.
Those having trouble with download link expired try the direct download link with Firefox.
http://download.bitsdujour.com/bdj/downloads/2022/hdsentinel…
No longer working. Can does anyone have mirror to hdsentinel_setup_570_bits_2022.zip ?
Edit Download does work, just not on chrome browser
CrystalDiskInfo is totally free, just use that
i was going to ask if it does the same thing as i already have CDI installed
Thanks, updated from v4.70 which couldn't see my SSD/NVME drive
I used to use this but have switched to the free CrystalDiskInfo. Has all the features like monitoring and alerts.
It's great for keeping an inventory of old/spare hard drives. Using a external HDD dock on my main PC, I connect any spares that I get. Then use the "Save Authentic Disk Report (HTML)" and keep those in a folder with a spreadsheet of all spare drives around and in also in use. I save as the serial number and then link to them from the spreadsheet. Very handy.
if the data is important to you, you should setup some backups /redundancies other than let crapy software like this send alerts and warnings that only make you anxious, just like those stupid ads " biggest sales ever, ends in 24hrs"
What's wrong with being notified about a potential issue for free? I had this installed on a PC that runs unattended 24/7 and it shot me an email of pending disk failure one day. Sure enough, disk was making noises and bad sectors growing. It was handy,
Backups are separate and should always be taken regardless and nothing to do with this software.
if the data is important to you, you should setup some backups /redundancies
Yep, absolutely.
other than let crapy software like this
What's your source for this untrue statement ?
This software is definitely not crappy, and you should be using it in addition to a good backup routine.
It gives an easy to access GUI to keep an eye on wear levels, among other things, to plan for a replacement - handy if you’ve got some sort of write heavy logging database for instance…
Here's the list of changes from the last time this was offered on here as a freebie, 5.61, to this version 5.70: https://www.hdsentinel.com/revision570.php
Can finally upgrade from v5.2
I really like this software it let me know the drive was on its way out and I replaced it before I lost important data.
Anyone who installed this can confirm it is legit with no malware and ransomware?
It's fine.
thanks, just saw this post and tried the direct link and confirm it installed fine without needing to change date/time.
Correct as….Install this product before 1st of August 2022
![[Windows] Free - Hard Disk Sentinel for PC Standard Edition V5.70 @ BitsDuJour](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/12/705812.jpg?h=0717c314)
the link is expired, to many download !