Hard Disk Sentinel is a multi-OS hard disk drive monitoring
application. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose andrepair hard disk drive
problems, display hard disk health, performance degradations and failures. Hard
DiskSentinel 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 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
measuresthe hard disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a
benchmark or to detect possible hard diskfailures, performance
degradations.Hard Disk Sentinel can be effectively used to prevent serious
damage or data loss because it has the most sensitive hard disk health rating
system which is extremely sensitive to diskproblems. This way even a small
problem can't be missed and a failure or data loss can be predicted. This gives
opportunity to backup important and valuable data. The Professional version has
scheduled and automatic (on-problem) backup options to prevent data loss caused
by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.
Here are some key features of "Hard Disk Sentinel
Professional":
• 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 theproblems - but if everything is
correct, Hard Disk Sentinel just sits on tray and displays current status. The
data is protected even in 24 hours daily, 7 days a week.
• Instant S.M.A.R.T. analysing - Hard Disk Sentinel can
communicate with IDE, Serial ATA and SCSI 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 can read all general and vendor-specific attributes and
monitor their values. For advanced users, all raw data are displayed also
including power-on hours or 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.
• Information on demand - It can display current hard disk
temperatures and health 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.
• 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 currenttransfer 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 - It 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.
• Clock Synchronization - It offers option to synchronize
the PC clock with an atomic clock via NTP (Network Time Protocol).
• Improvements - Hard Disk Sentinel is constantly improving.
More features will be available soon
