Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70.4 Beta Released (May 5, 2021) Website Changelog Download: https://www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_5704-nvst.zip Spoiler: Changse 5.70.4 Beta Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 5.70.4: - added option to perform hardware self test on NVMe SSDs (if supported): Disk menu -> Short Self Test, Disk menu -> Extended Self Test functions can be used on NVMe SSDs when available. The Information page confirms if Device Self Test feature is supported by the SSD. NVMe self test is possible with Windows Standard NVMe controller driver (may prevent too frequent self tests) Intel NVMe controller driver or Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID controller driver Samsung NVMe controller driver Micron NVMe controller driver JMicron USB-NVMe adapters/external NVMe-USB enclosures with JMicron chipsets - option to schedule short / extended self test on NVMe SSDs too (registered Hard Disk Sentinel Pro version) - adjusted calculation and reporting lower health on failing / problematic NVMe SSDs - improved disk surface test performance for NVMe SSDs: much faster Disk menu -> Read test possible on NVMe SSDs (in memoriam Neduddki) - improved Disk Repair test: counts and displays the amount of sectors successfully repaired and failed to repair - added detection of hard disks / SSDs configured as RAID on LSI LIBERATOR (LSI 9750-8i) controller, detect complete disk information / S.M.A.R.T. status of SATA / SAS hard disks / SSDs - amount of disk status history increased to allow logging and check back additional of historical status/health/temperature statistics - improved status reporting with FreeCom Public-disk external hard disk drives - improved detection with some Intel Optane configurations - improved compatibility with Intel VROC NVMe SSD RAID - improved health detection and reporting of various Sandisk and Crucial SSDs
Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 5.70.5. Website - Downloads - Changelog
Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 5.70.6. Website - Downloads - Changelog
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70.7 Beta Released (September 15, 2021) Website Changelog Download: https://www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_5707-bswp.zip
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70.8 Beta Released (October 20, 2021) Website Changelog Download: https://www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_5708-ddsi.zip Spoiler: Changes v5.70.8 Beta Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 5.70.8: - new function for advanced users (PRO version only): Disk menu -> Device Specific Information to detect and display additional details including: Power on time when last error detected/logged by the hard disk/SSD (registered version only) Time since last error detected/logged by the hard disk/SSD (registered version only) sector(s) where errors happened previously and their location by block number on the disk surface map (registered version only) ATA error log: last known errors, their description, registers, error details, last commands before error ATA self test log: last disk self tests, self test results and details (registered version only) ATA drive statistics: lifetime details, errors, temperature statistics ATA drive statistics: rotating media statistics (hard disk drives) or solid state device statistics (SSDs) ATA drive disk utilization and absolute limits for amount of reads/writes and temperature limits (if defined by the manufacturer) ATA drive temperature statistics, last known recorded temperature values ATA drive additional features and functionality supported by the hard disk drive/SSD NVMe error log NVMe self test log: last disk self tests, test results and possible error details (registered version only) SCSI/SAS defect list information SCSI/SAS background scan status information, protocol specific port information - Device Specific Information recorded and can be re-loaded to review previous statistics - Device Specific Information automatically shows the changes of most important values compared to previous data (registered version only) - improved database saving and option to re-load last known status of offline disks - improved support of Intel VROC NVMe RAID configurations - improved support of some Micron/Crucial SATA SSDs
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70.9 Beta Released (December 20, 2021) Website Changelog Download: https://www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_5709-amnr.zip Spoiler: Changes v5.70.9 Beta Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 5.70.9: - added support of AMD NVMe RAID solution: detect the status (health, temperature, lifetime writes, complete self-monitoring details) of NVMe M.2 PCIe SSDs managed by AMD RAID (both standalone and RAID configurations) Requires AMD RAID driver 9.3.0-00266 or newer version. Note: if the detection does not seem working immediately, a reboot / power cycle may be required Please use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option to confirm and check possible further changes/improvements - added support of SSK USB 3.1 / 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps) NVMe adapter: detect NVMe SSD status - added support of Kingston XS2000 SSD, Goodram CX400 G2, Zadak SSD - improved support of some Acer SSDs, Sandisk SSDs, Lite-on SSDs - improved Device Specific Information detection / reporting
Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 5.70.10. Website - Downloads - Changelog
Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 5.70.11. Website - Downloads - Changelog
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70.12 Beta Released (February 21, 2022) Website Changelog Download: https://www.hdsentinel.com/beta5/hdsentinel_pro_setup_57012-azrs.zip
Hello, A new version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 6.0.0.0. Website - Downloads - Changelog
Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 6.01.2. Website - Downloads - Changelog
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Hello, A new beta version of Hard Disk Sentinel has been released, version 6.01.4. Website - Downloads - Changelog
What does it mean the free one 'can only be used if the system is running DOS (for example started from a DOS boot floppy disk). Under Windows DOS-box it is NOT working." What's windows dos box, the command prompt?
Hi, David. You need to create bootable media and boot to it to use the DOS Edition. Have a read about it here.
Hi Hadron He says it needs dos not the dos box https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_dos.php Is the dos box the command prompt? I don't think i have dos