Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, health and performance including temperature and 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. Hard Disk Sentinel can be used to prevent serious damage or data loss. It warns the user before a problem may occur and this gives opportunity to backup important and valuable data.
What is new in this release:
- Fixed possible BSOD when Intel 750 series NVMe SSD (SSDPEDMW400G4 / SSDPEDMW800G4) used with Intel RST driver 17.8
- Fixed possible increase of "Number of error information log entries" count on Samsung NVMe SSDs
- Added further protection against problem in Intel AHCI driver 11.0, 11.2
- Added support for GEIL ZENITH SSDs
- Detect eMMC information on additional eMMC devices
- Improved compatibility with LaCie 2Big Quadra v3
- Improved reporting of failing SSDs
- Improved NVMe sector size detection
- Improved support for SK HYNIX GOLD SSDs
- Improved support of LEXAR SATA SSDs, PLEXTOR SSDs, Sandisk X300 SSD
- Non-English language file updates
What is new in version 5.30:
- Generic fixes, improvements for latest Windows updates
- Display notification and ask for whitelisting when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active which prevents access/testing of disks and detection of disk status information
- Detect and display TRIM status for SATA, NVMe SSDs correctly again after April 2018 update of Windows 10
- Improved support of hard disks, SSDs, RAID controllers
What is new in version 4.60:
Version 4.50 has improved display of S.M.A.R.T. attribute changes: automatically showing more dates based on screen resolution.
Limitations:
Some alerting features disabled
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