Improvements and new features:
new function: Disk menu -> Surface test -> Quick Fix (targeted repair of problematic sectors)
Verify which area(s) of the disk drive reported problems and written recently then diagnose, repair specifically those (and nearby) sectors and critical system areas. The test forces the disk drive to repair any problematic (pending, weak) sectors: restore the status to good or reallocate (replace from spare area) if required to prevent further use of the original sector (Pro version only)
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)
Extended S.M.A.R.T. detection: detect additional details / information for more accurate status/health reporting by detection of Ext. S.M.A.R.T. attributes
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)
new buttons in the button bar to open Windows Disk Management and Windows Device Manager
display Windows Drive Index (Physicaldriveindex) on the Information page if RAID array(s) present
display/report NVMe Maximum Power use in mW units on the Information page
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
amount of disk status history increased to allow logging and check back additional of historical status/health/temperature statistics
improved write disk testing, Disk Contents Inspector and general support of SAS drives with 520 or 528 bytes/sector sizes
Improved hardware support:
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
added support of Adaptec SmartRAID 3102E-8i controller: detect status information about hard disks / SSDs in RAID or standalone configuration
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
added support of LSI MegaRAID (MegaSR) / Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology II SATA RAID controller: detect status information of SATA disk drives in RAID configuration (if possible by the driver)
added support of Apricorn Fortress L3 and Padlock 3 external hard disk drives and Apricorn ASK3 or ASK3z Secure Key pendrives: in addition to the robust design and security functions the hard disk drives and pendrives supported by Hard Disk Sentinel: complete health, temperature, self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status detected and displayed.
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 status reporting with FreeCom Public-disk external hard disk drives
improved detection with Intel Optane configurations
improved compatibility with Intel VROC NVMe SSD RAID
improved health detection and reporting of various Sandisk and Crucial SSDs
added support of Kingston Design-In SSDs (OMSP0S3, OM4P0S3, OM8P0S3, OCP0S3)
improved compatibility and disk status reporting with Orico NS500RU3 3.5 inch 5 Bay USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure
improved health/status reporting for PNY SATA SSDs
improved display of power on time, health, status of newer WD / Hitachi SAS hard disk drives
improved compatibility with LSI controller with multiple arrays and higher number of hard disks / SSDs configured
improved compatibility with Promise Supertrak 8350 SATA RAID controller
improved compatibility with older SD/micro SD card readers
improved compatibility with some Kingston, Toshiba, Micron SSDs
improved text description of NVMe SSDs upon different problems / error conditions
adjusted calculation and reporting lower health on failing / problematic NVMe SSDs
improved detection with ASMEDIA ASM236x series USB-NVMe adapters
improved detection with Adaptec / Microsemi SAS RAID controllers and HBAs
improved detection with LSI / IBM / Intel SAS RAID controllers, improved dedicated hot spare reporting
improved support of Seagate Firecuda drives
improved support of Crucial CT2000MX500SSD1 SSD, Patriot P200 SSD, Micron SSDs, WDC PC SA530 SSDs
improved power on time display for SAS hard disk drives, SAS SSDs
improved display of stored file at a sector during disk surface test
improved Disk menu -> Surface test -> Disk Repair test
improved support of Sandisk X600 SSDs, Transcend SSDs, MemKing SSDs
improved compatibility and detection with LSI/Avago/Broadcom 9400 series SAS HBA
improved support of HP SATA/SAS HBA controllers
improved support of some Micron SATA SSDs, Plextor SATA SSDs, Kingston SATA SSDs
improved disk surface test performance log
added support of DELL SD1-U0250 SSD, YGC-SA3-128G SSD, Netac SSD, Sandisk SD8SBBU480G1122,
added support of ProGrade PG05.5 CFExpress memory card reader
added support of Crucial X6 SSD: detect temperature, self-monitoring status, health, S.M.A.R.T. details
added support of Patriot Supersonic Rage Prime pendrive: detect temperature, self-monitoring status, health, S.M.A.R.T. details
added support of Team Group TC21231TBB01 pendrive: detect temperature, self-monitoring status, health, S.M.A.R.T. details
added support of Swissbit U-50n, U-56n series industrial pendrives: detect temperature, self-monitoring status, health, and extended S.M.A.R.T. data
improved support/compatibility with Intel SSDPE2MD400G4
added/improved support of some HIKVISION SSDs
improved database saving and option to re-load last known status of offline disks
improved support of some Micron/Crucial SATA SSDs
added support of Kingston SDCIT2 industrial (micro) SD cards
added support of i-tec MySafe 2x2.5" USB 3.1 enclosure: detect S.M.A.R.T. status of both drives in RAID0/RAID1/JBOD mode
added support of Walram SATA SSD
improved detection of RAID / Hot spare drive(s) with older Intel RST drivers
improved support of some Kingston, Sandisk, Patriot SSDs
improvements for ADATA SD Express cards
improvements for AMD RAID with high number of SATA hard disks/SSDs and NVMe SSDs
Bug fixes, further modifications:
minor improvements on non-English languages
service mode improvements
improved WMI functionality support
minor changes for Windows 11
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