Hard Disk Sentinel v2.50

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Hard Disk Sentinel v2.50

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS HDD monitoring and HDD
analysis application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair
hard disk drive problems, report and display HDD health, performance
degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual
description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive
information about the HDD inside the computer or in an external
enclosure (USB / e-SATA). Many different alerts and report options are
available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.

Hard Disk Sentinel 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 today) values for each
hard disks. Also it measures the hard 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 HDD data loss because it has
the most sensitive hard 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.

Features:

Easy to use interface
All information are displayed in the main window of the application.
Quick controls allow easy navigation to access all hard disks,
partitions and different information. Intuitive user interface elements
display information by using green/yellow/red color to indicate the
level of problem. Detailed text description and context sensitive help
guides the user thru the features and options.

1. Install > 2. Configure > 3. Stay protected
Just install, configure alerts and backup options and your system is now
safe. You'll be notified about the problems - but if everything is
correct, Hard Disk Sentinel just sits on tray and displays current
status. The data is protected 24 hours daily, 7 days a week.

Instant S.M.A.R.T. analysing
Hard Disk Sentinel can communicate with IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI and some
special USB hard disks to detect their status and temperature. Disk
status are displayed immediately as you launch the application, there is
no need to analyse disks for a long period. It displays the current and
maximum temperature for the hard disk. It reads all general and
vendor-specific attributes and monitor their values. For advanced users,
all raw data are displayed also including power-on time and number of
read/write errors. Hard Disk Sentinel interprets the performance and
fitness related S.M.A.R.T. values and displays the calculated
Performance and Health percentage, total power on time and estimated
lifetime remaining.

Disk status in Windows Explorer
View the current health status and used space in Windows
Explorer or in any other application, so you'll always know the
amount of used space for each partitions and the disk condition.
Hard disk health and used space displayed on disk icons

Information on demand
Current hard disk temperatures and health can be displyed on the system
tray, in a small status window and on the desktop itself. Average and
maximum temperatures are logged for all hard disks and these
informations are displayed in graphs for statistical purposes.

Hard Disk Hardware Testing
By using Hard Disk Sentinel, it is possible to start hardware hard disk
self tests. These tests can be used to effectively find all hard disk
problems because built-in hardware methods are used to verify hard disk
components (for example heads, servo, internal buffer in the Short self
test). The Extended self test also verifies the complete disk surface,
finds and repairs all "weak" areas and re-allocates the possible bad
sectors. This is not possible with the software-based disk surface scan
methods (for example, by using scandisk).

Logging
Hard Disk Sentinel logs all degradations in all SMART parameters. For
example, if a new uncorrectable sector is found on your hard disk, you
will be notified.

Alerts
Hard Disk Sentinel can make different kind of alerts upon different
problems. It can execute various tasks (even external applications) in
case of a problem. There is an option to send daily emails about current
status.

Hard Disk Details
Detects and displays every information about the hard disk, from the
revision number and buffer size to all features it has. The maximum
available and current transfer modes are also displayed.

Hard Disk Performance
Logs how much data were read from or written to the hard disk. Displays
current transfer rates for both reading and writing and estimates the
maximum available (theoretical) transfer rate for a particular hard disk.

Hard Disk Partitions
Displays partitions for each physical hard disks and type and usage
informations about them so you cannot run out of space. Hard Disk
Sentinel sends this information automatically in alert/status messages.

Shutdown
It offers option to shut down the computer on failure, overheat or
parameter degradation. This option can be used to prevent further data loss.

Acoustic Management
Offers option to control the acoustic level of IDE/S-ATA hard disk. It
is possible to increase performance or make the disks more silent.
Unique feature: control the acoustic level of your external USB hard
disk (if your USB enclosure is built around Cypress AT2+ chip).

Clock Synchronization
It offers option to synchronize the PC clock with an atomic clock via
NTP (Network Time Protocol).

Backup
In the Professional version, wide range of backup methods are available:
to backup data to local computer, to a LAN server or to a remote FTP (or
to a mail) server. It is even possible to use 3rd party tools to create
archives or burn media. Hard Disk Sentinel can manage power status of
remote computers in the network.

Improvements
Hard Disk Sentinel is constantly improving. More features will be
available soon. If you have any idea which can be useful, just let us know.

System Requirements
* Windows operating system (Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 or
Longhorn/Vista)
* System administrator account (in service mode, it is possible to use
without administrator rights and without even user logged in)
* At least 10 megabytes of hard disk space
* Hard disk with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II), SCSI, SAS
communication interface.
USB hard disks with Oxford, JMicron and Cypress AT2+ chips are supported.
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.

Note1: 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) provide this
information most of the time. If you have good or bad experiences or
compatibility problems, please let us know.

Note2: 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.

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