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I have a laptop that Hard Disk Sentinel won't read my drive. The laptop uses Intel Rapid Storage Technology to combine a 32GB mSATA drive with a Hitachi Travelstar hard drive to increase performance. It is a fairly common setup on laptops. I am thinking that Intel Rapid Storage Technology may be the problem. Is there a way to get Hard Disk Sentinel to work with my setup?
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So far, have yet to need the DOS version. Been running the Windows version (Pro) since 2012. Excellent program... and it's a superb tool for testing a new HDD... even better for testing and revitalizing old and refurbished drives. Recently picked up several refurbished Hitachi Ultrastar 3 TB drives (7K4000 series). Ran the following tests on each drive: Short Self-Test....................(1 min) Extended Self-Test.............(7 hr) Read Surface....................(13 hr) Reinitialize Disk Surface...(17 hr) All blocks tested Good... now I feel pretty confident about using those refurbished drives.
That's sounds quite possible... your best bet would be to contact the developer. He's very prompt in responding. Either try sending him a message via the Contact Form or via email: info@hdsentinel.com Or you can post on HD Sentinel Forum P.S. The developer maintains a listing of external hard disks, adapters, docks and enclosures that properly pass on "temperature, health and complete S.M.A.R.T. information" Compatible external hard disks, enclosures Noticed in the forum that he will really appreciate users sending him a report ("File" > "Send Test Report to Developer") that are using HD Sentinel with external devices so he can evaluate their compatibility. Just sent him a report with a HDD in my primary USB 3 dock
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A new version has been released with an improved hardware support and tons of other changes. Hard Disk Sentinel v5.20 Released (March 23, 2018) Website Spoiler: Improvements and new features, bug fixes, ... https://www.hdsentinel.com/revision.php Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20 (23/3/2018) Improvements and new features: added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices (see How to: monitor Network Attached Storage (NAS) status ) added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related to disks and storage subsystem. By this option, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro detects if Windows saves errors/warnings to SYSTEM event log and report recent problems detected while Hard Disk Sentinel is running/monitoring and use them in calculation of health to show issues, degradations (registered Pro version) display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite, Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports detection and reporting new ATA standards and new ATA / Serial ATA features on Information page: Device sleep (DevSleep), Service interrupt, Device encrypts all data, IDLE IMMEDIATE, Nominal form factor, NCQ Streaming and autosense, Rebuild assist, Hybrid information display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives) improved WRITE testing (Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read, Reinitialise disk surface) to prevent "access denied" error updated Help to cover new functions, features completely redesigned tray icon handling: better sort/move/order tray icons under Windows 7, 8.1, 10 improved disk surface test performance with Intel, LSI, Dell SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs improved disk surface test performance with hard disks formatted with 520 / 528 bytes/sector improved text description on various errors/problems Improved hardware support: detection of NVMe SSD status when Intel RAID configured: detect complete status of standalone NVMe SSDs and NVMe SSDs used as RAID. displaying Highest possible transfer rate and Negotiated transfer rate for NVMe SSDs added support of integrated AMD RAID controller on motherboards with Ryzen CPUs: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations added support for ATTO RAID Rxxx controllers: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations. Detect SAS drives, their status and error counters when RAID configuration used displaying RAID controller temperature for ATTO RAID controllers added detection of complete disk status when ASMEDIA ASM1352R external USB RAID controller used: detection of complete status when RAID 0 / RAID 1 / LARGE / JBOD confiuration used added support of RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31, Oyen Digital Minipro RAID USB 3.1 enclosure added support of Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMT3PB080: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA/SAS drives managed in RAID configurations. added support of ASMEDIA ASM109x RAID controllers with proper firmware: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID0, RAID1, SPAN/large configurations improved detection of Intel onboard RAID controller and drive status (previously some RAID disks could be missing, especially with multiple arrays and newer Intel RST drivers) improved industrial SD card detection, added support of industrial SD cards with newer firmware versions added support of Western Digital WD SSDs improved detection of FASTDISK SSD fixed health of Sandisk SSD PLUS 256 GB external SSD improved support and reporting of SK Hynix SSDs (including SK Hynix SC311) added support of Silicon Motion SM2258, SM2259 controllers added support of Silicon Motion SM2260 NVMe SSDs added support of ADATA SU800 SSD added support of KingDian SSD, Kingspec SSD, newer Kingston SSD, Patriot Blast and further SSDs improved NVMe SSD status detection under Windows 7, Windows 8.1 32 bit, added support of Plextor M8PeY NVMe SSD improved error reporting with Marvell 9230 RAID controllers improved detection time and compatibility with JMicron external enclosures improved detection with HP Smart Array P812 RAID controller improved detection of LSI / DELL RAID controllers when RAID 50 used improved detection of disk status information with newer HP Smart Array controllers, drivers and HP servers improved compatibility with Sandisk X300, Corsair Force LE, Micron SSDs improved compatibility with LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS controllers, displaying SLOT number in Disk Interface field improved compatibility and error reporting for LiteON SSDs improved power on time count display of Toshiba hard disk drives improved compatibility with 4Kn (native 4K sector size) Enterprise hard disk drives improved compatibility with Marvell 91xx, 92xx controllers in standalone and RAID mode improved compatibility with LSI MegaRAID 8208 controller improved support of new Intel SSDs improved compatibility with some pendrives, memory card readers improved support of HP SAS SSDs, STEC SAS SSDs improved lifetime writes of various Samsung and Sandisk SSDs Bug fixes, further modifications: fixed: large external hard disks could be locked (was not possible to use safe remove) improved WMI support: no unwanted events in WMI activity log option to keep last NN archives during backup: increased to keep up to 1000 archives fixed: FTP projects did not clear old archives if "keep last N archives" option used fixed problem when disk(s) selected to be displayed when they are offline and their data files removed fixed: log of issued alerts not saved with Backup Configuration updated language files (thanks for translators) minor interface and tray icon changes fixed 64-bit world wide ID field
Hard Disk Sentinel v5.30 Released (July 17, 2018) Website Spoiler: Improvements and new features, bug fixes, ... https://www.hdsentinel.com/revision.php Hard Disk Sentinel 5.30 (17/7/2018) Improvements and new features: improved installation when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active 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 displaying additional NVMe functions / optional features improved connection and on-line registration, activation improved report sending via Report menu -> Send test report to developer option improved / changed automatic update manual update asks for confirmation of the update when new version found Improved hardware support: improved Intel RAID detection, LSI RAID detection HP RAID: improved reporting of SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utilization. Added Remaining Days Until Wearout value to S.M.A.R.T. page added support of Community OFA NVMe driver for NVMe SSDs added support of Apacer APS25AF4120G SSD (SM130-25) display health status correctly of new Kingston A400 series SSDs (may reported 0% on the beginning of lifetime) improved NVMe M.2 SSD detection on Windows 7 improved detection of external RAID boxes improved health of various Toshiba SSDs improved support of new Crucial SSDs improved power on time display for various IBM, Seagate, Hitachi SAS hard disk drives improved power on time display for various Toshiba SATA hard disk drives Bug fixes, further modifications: fixed: write tests may show "Access denied" when the default "Lock volume" option enabled on external pendrive, memory card fixed: show error when there is no internet connection when update initiated improved showing single tray icon when "Display only highest temperature" option enabled improved multi-drive testing improved current temperature graph
A little story that happened to me today a couple of hours ago... I started an RMA process with Kingston Mexico after purchasing a SA400S37120G SSD since last week. Just by chance I started re-initializing an old 2.5" HDD I want to use in this new machine I am building using HD Sentinel to restore the surface. Doing that and the SSD was also plugged in, and guess what, HD Sentinel reported a Health status of 0%, failure predicted... After having a phone conversation with Kingston's technical support and sending all required infos to them, @mood posts this new version 5.30 and guess what I found in the changelog above: Short story: I was laughing with the representative via phone. The *** **** SSD is healthier than my daughter's new dog. Good good timing @mood
Great story. Not the first part of course, but the latter. Nothing curls a user's toe worse than seeing warning signs of imminent drive failure. In this case of yours, it was a false alarm, but an alarm at the time nonetheless. Whew
Release of a beta version (5.30.1 Build 9417 Beta) with small improvements Download: www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_5301b.zip
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Thank you, mood I don't recall the procedure of updating. I do recall some warning note about don't update because then it becomes a trial for 30 days. On Windows10 I currently have 4.71 also from bitsdujour. Should I uninstall it first before putting in 5.20? I pushed v4.71 over to XP and it works great.
@act8192 You don't have to uninstall before installing the new version (which is the case for most software). The new version will install as a trial, but of course, you will be get the license key for the new version form bitsdujour, to register it again.
Thanks. But just to clarify - on v4.71 when I click about it says it's registered to bitsdujour, and I don't recall that there was a 30day trial but that was a year ago or so. I ask because 4.71 is working and I just don't want to cause me trouble.
