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, solid state disks and hybrid drives (SSHD) 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. 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.

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable version

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Portable version can be used to diagnose hard disk drive and SSD devices in any computer without installation or modification of any settings, files on the appropriate computer. It can be effectively used from a pendrive (or other removable device) by system integrators and advanced users to periodically diagnose and test hard disk drives, however it does not provide real-time protection offered by the installed Hard Disk Sentinel Professional version.

The Portable version contains all tests, diagnostic functions, options and features of Hard Disk Sentinel Professional, except some functions applicable for the installed version only (automatically start with Windows, use in Service mode, configure data folder location).

The use of Portable version requires a license for Hard Disk Sentinel Professional. To fully utilize both the installed version (to get real-time 7/24 protection) and the Portable version (to diagnose hard disks in different systems), separate licenses or use of a Family license (with both versions) is required.

The amount of computers (and hard disk drives, SSDs in those systems) is not limited - as the Portable version is used with only one computer at any given time, it can be moved to an other when preferred.

What's New

Improvements and new features

  • Detection of Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM log) for both SATA and SAS Seagate drives (if supported by the drive) to Disk menu -> Device Specific Information (PRO version) more details: https://www.hdsentinel.com/seagate-hard-disk-farm-log.php
  • Detection and verification of power on time value by the Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM log) for both SAS and SATA Seagate hard disk drives (if the hard disk drive supports FARM log feature)
  • Showing Master Password ID value for drives supporting ATA security mode
  • Added support of Silicon Power MS60 pendrive: detect status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information
  • Added support of I-tec CAMYSAFEDUALM2: detect both drives: health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
  • Added support of Teramaster D5-300: detect all drives: health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
  • Added status detection of Sandisk Desk SSD, Seagate Game Drive, MIXZA SSDs
  • Added support of Rocstor Rocpro U35: detect all drives and their health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status
  • Added support of SK HYNIX T31 STICK pendrive: detect temperature, health, wearout and lifetime status, S.M.A.R.T. information
  • Added support of various SSK combo USB-NVMe / USB-SATA adapters
  • Detection and reporting of additional fake / invalid / useless external SSDs, pendrives

Improved hardware support

  • Improved status reporting of Icy Box IB-RD3640SU3 multi-drive enclosure
  • Improved compatibility with various memory card readers, USB devices
  • Improved compatibility with Realtek RTL9220 (20G) USB-NVMe / USB-SATA adapters
  • Improved status reporting of ADATA SATA SSDs, Kingspec SSDs, Addlink SATA SSDs, various SATA SSDs
  • Improved support of CF express card readers
  • Improved detection and reporting of U.2 NVMe SSDs with Broadcom 94xx / 95xx tri-mode HBA controllers
  • Support of ICY DOCK M.2 PCIe 3.0/4.0 NVMe SSD to 2.5" U.2 SSD converter MB705M2P-B
  • Improved support Orico M2PJM-C3 NVMe / SATA M.2 USB adapter
  • Improved support of UGREEN CM335 dual RAID enclosure, OWC External RAID Elite: detect both drives and their health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status
  • Improved compatibility with Solidigm NVMe controller driver
  • Improved compatibility with RODE Wireless Pro microphone
  • Improved detection with some LSI / Avago / Broadcom SATA/SAS/NVMe tri-mode RAID controllers
  • Support of JMicron JMS586R USB-NVMe RAID controller: detect and report 2nd NVMe SSD status configured in PM/RAID0/RAID1/LARGE mode (requires proper firmware version of the RAID controller chip from the manufacturer)
  • Improved support of various external USB-NVMe adapters with JMicron JMS583 chipsets
  • Improved support of Phison PU31
  • Improved reporting of lifetime writes on various SSDs (Verbatim, Sandisk, Lite-On, Hikvision)
  • Improved support and Health display on Swissbit mSATA / M.2 / SATA industrial SSDs, Corsair SSDs, Apple SSDs, Sandisk SSDs, Patriot, Intel SSDs, Micron SSDs, ADATA SSDs)
  • Improved support of Lenovo / DELL OEM SSDs, some Kingston SSDs
  • Improved support / reporting of IBM-E050 ST6000NM0014 and some other SAS drives
  • Improved support of several 4/5 bay hard disk enclosures in non-RAID (standalone/port multiplier) mode
  • Added support of Yottamaster 4 and 5 bay RAID enclosures: detect status of RAID array members
  • Improved support and health reporting of Sandisk X600, X400, U100 series SSDs
  • Improved support and health reporting of WD Blue SA510 series SSDs
  • Improved support and health reporting of Goodram CX400 G2 SSDs, Lite-on SSDs, ADATA SU630, some Seagate SSDs
  • Improved detection of disk drives in Lacie V2 RAID enclosure
  • Improved detection of disk drives in Yottamaster 4 bay hard disk enclosure
  • Improved detection of disk drives in QNAP TR-002 RAID enclosure
  • Fixed AMD RAID detection when a drive missing / removed
  • Minor changes for various RAID controllers / RAID configurations
  • Improved power on time reporting on drives over 15 years runtime
  • Improved compatibility and status/health detection with various CF-Express Type-B card readers and memory cards

Bug fixes, further modifications

  • Improved compatibility with multiple Google drives
  • Minor changes, modifications, optimizations