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Hard Disk Sentinel
Hard Disk Sentinel is an SSD and HDD monitoring, analysis and repair software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair disk drive problems. Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.
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 and in external enclosures (USB hard disks / e-SATA hard disks).
Hard Disk Sentinel monitors disk drive status including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) values for all hard 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 disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to disk problems. This way, even a small HDD problem cannot be missed.
We liked HD Sentinel so much, we had to offer it to you!
CMS did not develop this product, we license it for your benefit. This is a perfect complement to BounceBack as the state of your disk drives is critical. While it cannot prevent all disk problems, it can let you know when they are developing and starting to cause problems that otherwise may not be apparent. It is great insurance and gives you piece of mind.
How does Hard Disk Sentinel work?
Hard Disk Sentinel runs in the background and verifies SSD / HDD health status by inspecting the SMART status of the disk(s). If an error is found or unexpected behaviour is detected, it warns the user about the current situation and also can perform appropriate actions (for example, start an automatic backup).
Usually, hard disk health status may slowly decline, from day to day. The SMART monitoring technology can predict HDD failure by examining the critical values of the disk drive. Compared to other software, Hard Disk Sentinel detects and reports every disk problem. It is much more sensitive to disk failures and can display better and more detailed information about hard disk expected life and the problems found (if any). This is a more sophisticated way to predict failures than the "traditional" method: checking S.M.A.R.T. attribute thresholds and values only. For more information, please read how hard disk S.M.A.R.T. works and why Hard Disk Sentinel is different.
The software displays the current hard disk temperature and logs maximum and average HDD temperatures. This may be used to check the maximum temperature under high hard disk load. For the importance of the hard disk operating temperature, see the Frequently Asked Questions. See the list of Features of Hard Disk Sentinel Professional or our products for hard disk monitoring.
Do I need Hard Disk Sentinel?
If you are using a computer equipped with at least one hard disk or solid state disk and you want to ensure that your data will be available any at time, then the answer is YES. Hard Disk Sentinel is especially important to you if:
- you are using notebook computer
- you are using server or desktop computers with high disk load
- you want to maximize system stability, HDD performance and overall integrity
- you want to receive HDD alert on high temperature or low health
- you are using multiple hard disks / SSDs / hybrid drives (SSHD) in your computer (IDE / Serial ATA (S-ATA, e-SATA) / NVMe / SCSI / SAS / USB hard disks) or in an external enclosure (check the hardware compatibility pages for the list of compatible hardware)
- you are using a mobile / removable rack or enclosure with hard disk inside
