Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Edition

Monitor the Health of Your Hard Drive

Have you ever suffered through the pain and agony of a hard drive failure? To you, it's pretty straightforward -- one day your computer is humming along smoothly, and the next day it won't boot at all. But what you may not know is that, beyond the capabilities of your human senses, a whole host of little warning signs and other signals can actually tell you when hard drive failure is imminent! That's why Hard Disk Sentinel is so important.

Hard Disk Sentinel monitors and analyzes your hard disk and solid state drives, giving you valuable feedback on the health of the drive, any performance degradations, and warning of impending failure. With Hard Disk Sentinel, you'll be able to find, test, diagnose, and even repair disk drive issues before they escalate to catastrophic status.

And you won't have to worry about getting overwhelmed with a bunch of technical babble -- Hard Disk Sentinel gives you an easily understandable description of what's going on, and offers tips on how to proceed! A laundry list of alerts and reports gives you the ultimate flexibility to determine how close you wish to monitor your drives, letting you safeguard your data at all times.

Unlike some other titles on the market, Hard Disk Sentinel is a complete monitoring solution. There's no need to purchase other tools in order to verify internal hard disks, external hard disks, SSDs, or disks in RAID arrays!

What kinds of info do you get with Hard Disk Sentinel? How about temperature, and the ability to view S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data, a feature built into the latest disk drives. There's also real-time monitoring of disk transfer speeds, an important indicator of a failing hard drive!

Please note: online license activation is required. License grants usage on one computer at a time.

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“Thank you for this great software. I have been using it for a while now, and it recently detected my C: drive health starting to deteriorate. This has enabled me to clone it to a new hard drive well before it starts to fail. Hard Disk Sentinel is "must have" software for all 3 of my computers, and I'm recommending it to my son and grandkids. ”- Ralph Wiggins
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“Hard Disk Sentinel Enterprise Server is the perfect tool to monitor our IT environment in the network. It helped us to find out possible issues and we had the opportunity to replace disks and modify the configurations to prevent data loss. It helped to find out systems operating at very high temperatures and we could do all steps to eliminate such problems also. With the provided details and the alerts it helps our administrators and saves lots of time and energy of both our staff and our colleagues. Doing this without consuming any noticeable resources on the client systems or on the network itself. ”- Bethesda, Children's Hospital of Hungarian Reformed Church
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Albert C. One of the best if not the best programs for HDD monitoring! Friendly activation system and great support too! ^_^

Jul 31 2011 at 3:13am

Genie au Travail In the policy :
... Online license activation is required without a hardware footprint...

But on the web site of the software :
Note: if the user must re-install the operating system, Hard Disk Sentinel can be re-installed and re-activated as many times as the user wants if the first installed hard disk is the same in all cases. If this (first) hard disk needs to be replaced, the number of legally allowed re-activations are decreased by one. Then for this (new) hard disk the user may re-install and re-activate as many times as he wants again. Hard Disk Sentinel can be connected to 5 (five) different primary hard disks (if you need to replace your first hard disk to a 6th one, please contact us to extend your license). The second, third or any further disks or other components have no effect about the registered status of the application. The user may freely add/remove/replace any 2nd or further hard disk.

The question about hardware footprint need to be clarified...

Jul 31 2011 at 10:07am

Janos Mathe Excuse me for the confusion.
Basically the policy should be read as:

"Online license activation is required, license grants the use on one computer at a time."

You can any time re-install, upgrade your computer, the license can be activated again (any number of times).

Alternatively you can move the license to an other computer (it is limited to 5 times by default but if further moves are required, the license is extended on request. This extenstion is FREE of course).

The license is lifetime: it never expires and all future version upgrades are also free.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Jul 31 2011 at 10:56am

Gonzo Will you be offering the Professional and/or Professional Family License as well during this promotion? Or maybe in the near future?

Jul 31 2011 at 8:59pm

Genie au Travail it's sad to see good software sealed in its licensing policy.

Aug 1 2011 at 4:39am

Tazzie I use HDS and love it! I just swapped my main OS HDD drive for a SSD drive, and had no problems reinstalling and activating HDS ... it was seamless and smooth and running great as before. Picked up on the SSD along with my HDD data drive and external drive. This is one software that I consider worth the activation policy.

Aug 1 2011 at 6:36am

Janos Mathe Excuse me if the licensing makes troubles.

Just a tip which may help and makes the activation system more friendly and easier: Configuration - Update - Backup configuration option saves all current statistics, settings, licensing information to a single file.

Later, upon a reinstall (or if you prefer to move the software to an other computer) you can use Configuration - Update - Restore configuration to restore all details and this does not require activation again.
With other words, you may only need to activate the software only once, upon the very first install and then you can use it without to worry about the activation system at all.

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Family license is more permissive, that license allows the use on more than one computers (up to 5) at the same time.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 1 2011 at 8:07am

Janos Mathe Gonzo: it would be nice and I hope it will be possible. This depends also on BDJ :-)

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 1 2011 at 8:20am

M.Nazmi Özmilli I prefer Pro. May be not use all feature but some future necessary.
If I will buy standard edition, can I upgrade pro ver. later ? (May be BDJ is not allow )

Aug 1 2011 at 8:39am

Genie au Travail Very good news about licensing.
I will purchase a copy.

Aug 1 2011 at 11:39am

c j Will their be any option for H.D.S. Pro and/or Hard Disk Sentinel Professional Family license?

Aug 1 2011 at 4:24pm

Gonzo @ c j
I asked exactly the same and the response was: it would be nice and I hope it will be possible. This depends also on BDJ :-)

Aug 1 2011 at 6:29pm

Roger Thomasson Nothing else scheduled at this time folks!

Just this spectacular deal :-)

BitsDuJour Admin - Aug 1 2011 at 8:04pm

Gonzo I'll join M.Nazmi Özmilli question: If we buy the Standard version here, can we upgrade to professional later on? If so, how much would we have to pay?
I checked the website but can't seem to find such an option.

Aug 2 2011 at 3:14am

Lupke Brother Hi Janos,

HDS can verify disks in Raid array. What about disks in Raid 1 which are controlled by the Intel Rapid storage technology driver? I tried other software but they couldn't read it, not even my s.m.a.r.t. data for this Raid drives. I want to be sure before installing yet another harddisk monitor.

Aug 2 2011 at 10:32am

Janos Mathe M.Nazmi Özmilli, Gonzo: Yes, it is possible to upgrade from Standard to Pro any time for the difference between the retail prices: EUR 10 or USD 12. The easiest and fastest method is to use PayPal and transfer to info@hdsentinel.com and the new Pro registration code will be delivered to your e-mail address.

If you prefer other payment method and/or upgrade immediately to Pro Family version, that will be also possible (just send an e-mail about with inquiry).

Excuse me for the delayed answer, I wanted to confirm with BDJ admin if I'm allowed to post this upgrade method here.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 2 2011 at 11:57am

Janos Mathe Lupke Brother: Yes of course, RAID 1 controlled by the Intel Rapid Storage (on ICH7R or newer) is supported, all disks should be monitored just like standalone disks.
Please note that for some RAID controllers (like the Intel) you may require a driver update. The most common such recommended drivers are available on www.hdsentinel.com - Support - Driver Zone

You may download and install trial (unregistered) version to verify if all disk information are detected prior selecting this license. If not, please use Report menu - Send test report to developer option so I can check the details and may advise.

Under Support - Compatibility - Disk Controllers the currently supported RAID controllers (IDE/SATA/SAS) are listed.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 2 2011 at 12:03pm

Frank Stephens I bought the Pro version from a previous BDJ promotion. Great product, highly recommended. The Standard version should be fine for most people, you can check the comparison table. I don't leave it running because my external drives can flake out. I thought that might be a problem with the S.M.A.R.T. checking, but they flake out anyway. No one at Microsoft knows anything about computers. Even on Win7x64 an unresponsive external drive, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with what you're doing, can hang Windows indefinitely. I just have to unplug and replug drives to reset them.

Aug 3 2011 at 1:17am

Janos Mathe Frank: Thanks for your kind words :-)

The generous problem with some external drives is well known: some of them have an internal power management function and they power down after some idle time.
Later, when you try to access the drive, it may not power up properly and a timeout happens. It can hang the device and/or the complete system and you need to restart the computer or disconnect/reconnect the device.

It is not really related to Hard Disk Sentinel (as you wrote, it happens even if the software is not active). Anyway, there is an option in the software which is designed especially for this issue: on Configuration - Disk Control you can find the "Do not allow spin down of disks" option. Please specify the disk numbers from the Hard Disk Drives page (or just a * ) there to prevent the activation of this power management function by periodically sending a command to the hard disk. The result should be no more issues with the external drive and the data should be available all times (no need to wait to spin up the external drive again).

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 1:32am

Trucker Garfield "...can hang Windows indefinitely." - Frank:

- Do you have the lastest drivers for your hardware ?
- Have you build your computer from the ground ?

I don´t have that problem on any of my XP or Win7 computers at all !

Janos: Does the Hard Disk Sentinel Standard show S.M.A.R.T. info or is it only the PRO version ?

Aug 3 2011 at 2:58am

Janos Mathe Trucker G: according the experiences, this issue affects only very small number of external hard disks (for example some older WD MyBook and Samsung Story Station models).

Most external hard disks have no such problems.

Frank: I forgot to write. Can you please use Report menu - Send test report to developer option when the external drives are connected? Just to check the detected information and the type of the bridge chip used in external enclosure and according that I may give further information/advice.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 3:29am

Janos Mathe Trucker G: Yes of course, the Standard edition also provides full S.M.A.R.T. information and supports exactly the same hardware devices (Disk/RAID controllers, HDDs/SSDs, USB/eSata devices, etc.) as the Professional one.

The major difference is that the Professional offers more disk testing functions and has automatic backup projects: execute specific tasks as scheduled and/or upon any issue found with the hard disk(s).

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 3:33am

ellison I've used the standard version since 2009 ,and found this software (and the support) to be excellent.As well as the basic SMART features I like the fact that it shows you the hard drive temp in the system tray,and that you can set it to start with windows with a pre start time delay.I have mine set to 240 secs so as not to interfere with other start up items.Another nice touch is the "verify online" feature where you can compare your hard drives stats with other users of the same drive.All in all its a good piece of software and well worth the price shown here !! ( I paid £20.10 in vat) back in 09.

Aug 3 2011 at 3:55am

Trucker Garfield Janos: Thanks for the info. Strange, I do have a older WD MyBook (250 GB) and still didn´t have any program... Anyways...
I wasn´t sure because I looked at the comparing page of the versions and it did say S.M.A.R.T., thanks.

Aug 3 2011 at 4:06am

Janos Mathe Trucker G: maybe you can hear the spin down/spin up of the hard disk in the MyBook (?)
Usually they have less problems as they (3.5" drives) have external power supply, just it may be not comfortable to wait to spin up on all access.

Problems may happen more frequently with 2.5" drives, especially if the manufacturer ships them with single USB cables instead of double (Y-USB cable). Single USB connection may not provide enough power to spin up properly and the constant spin up retries can cause the "hang" issue and (more important) can damage the hard disk itself.
So excuse me, I wanted to write WD Passport instead of MyBook.

Anyway, Hard Disk Sentinel can help in such situations to make the drives and the complete system more stable and reliable.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 4:38am

Lupke Brother @ Janos
Great tool. Works very good with Raid 1 and s.m.a.r.t. Reads everything.

Free upgrades for life. Thank you!

Aug 3 2011 at 4:56am

Frank Stephens Janos Mathe, 4 external USB 2.0 drives have problems, all different manufacturers, most are 2TB, 2 external USB 3.0 drives don't have problems, different hardware. I tried setting Hard Disk Sentinel to keep the drives spinning, but so far I haven't been able to keep Hard Disk Sentinel from hanging forever at startup (and tough to kill). You're a responsive developer, I'll move this to email, I'm sure it's just some conflict with my drive controllers which you'll be able to fix.

Aug 3 2011 at 5:03am

Marco Pivetta I have 4 disks in a RAID10 array. I use Silicon Image - Sil3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller. My question is: will this software recognize my array?

Aug 3 2011 at 6:12am

Janos Mathe Frank: This sounds really interesting. I'm so curious to have further information as I'd check the situation and improve.
Do you have the latest Hard Disk Sentinel version (3.60) installed?

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 6:17am

Janos Mathe Marco: Yes, the disks in the RAID array should be detected and their full status (temperature, health and full S.M.A.R.T. information) should be available.

On http://www.hdsentinel.com...ollers.php , the Silicon Image 3114 is listed in the "RAID controllers" section as it provides details about all SATA disks (standalone and configured as RAID arrays).

I recommend to download the trial version by the "Download" button to verify hardware compatibility. If some information is missing, please make sure to use the latest drivers for this controller.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 6:29am

Frank Stephens Janos Mathe, I was able to get a report off (under my real name) after I rebooted. I'm leaving Hard Disk Sentinel running with the external drives set to stay active. Yes, I've been using version 3.60.

Aug 3 2011 at 8:06am

Janos Mathe Thanks, I'm checking the report and will advise in e-mail back.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 8:37am

Marco Pivetta Janos, thanks a lot for the answer.

I tested before 2 freeware alternatives, GSmartControl and HDD Guardian. The first did not find any drives and the second delivers the following error:

Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application.

I made what you recommended and installed the trial version. It works very well. I ´ll buy it!

Aug 3 2011 at 8:50am

Janos Mathe Marco: Thanks!
The problem is that most HDD-monitoring software can access only "simple" configurations with standalone internal disks.

Only very few (including Hard Disk Sentinel of course) offer hardware support for RAID controllers, external USB/eSATA disks, SSDs and other storage devices (docking stations, port multipliers, server-grade SAS drives + backplanes and so).

And even less software offer disk testing, statistics, alerts, reports from web browser - but these are also included in this single software, Hard Disk Sentinel.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 9:03am

S B I, too, was fortunately able to get a pro family pack from a previous BDJ promotion.

I cannot add much except to say that its user interface and data presentation are more generous, professional, and clearer than the several other products that I've tried (typically much more so).

I am very happy with the Hard Disk Sentinel.

Aug 3 2011 at 12:00pm

James Kenney Could you clarify how to get the pro and/or the family editions at a discount?
Do we buy the regular version first and then send a paypal payment to you for the difference in base prices?
Do we need to contact you first?

Aug 3 2011 at 12:24pm

Janos Mathe James: if you already have Hard Disk Sentinel Standard edition and prefer the upgrade, just transfer the difference between the retail price of this edition and the Pro (or Pro Family) by PayPal to info@hdsentinel.com
The differences are: upgrade to Pro: USD 12, upgrade to Pro Family: USD 39.50

Yes, please also send an email with your name/address so I can check the license and then provide the new license key for the updated version. The best if you use the same e-mail address for the PayPal transaction as it helps to identify the license.

If you do not yet have the Standard edition, you may consider to get the Pro or Pro Family version directly at BDJ as it may be more economic (at least for the Family pack) by using these links:

http://www.bitsdujour.com...ofessional

http://www.bitsdujour.com...ly-license

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 12:50pm

Carl Lum This looks like a very useful program and I just purchased it. However there is one annoying glitch: I had downloaded the trial version to check it out. But when I went to enter my registration code, the program told me to download and install the Standard edition first, as the trial is for the Pro version. Now I have to uninstall and reinstall. How annoying!

A much more user friendly method would be to have one executable and then have the registration key unlock the appropriate features.

Aug 3 2011 at 1:22pm

Janos Mathe Carl: Thanks!

Excuse me for the issue. Basically, the Standard and Pro versions have different features and built differently (that's why they accept only the keys designed to the proper version).

The trial version on www.hdsentinel.com is basically an unregistered Pro version (which really accepts license keys to the Pro version).

I can make sure if you use the "Download" button on the top of this BDJ page, it downloads the correct version which should accept the license code, so there is no need to download and install a different package.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 1:30pm

Carl Lum Yes, I eventually went back to the "Download" button and got the proper version. My mistake was that I wandered off onto your website to look for more information and ended up grabbing the trial download from there.

Your program looks extremely comprehensive and appears to be an excellent value, especially for $11. One question: does your surface test take long to complete? I just bought a 2TB drive and I tried running the Windows "scan and detect bad sectors" and it ended up locking up the drive after running for several hours...

Aug 3 2011 at 1:46pm

Janos Mathe A complete surface scan may take really long time, especially on a 2 TB hard disk (4-8 hours is normal).

However, during the test Hard Disk Sentinel monitors and shows the data transfer speed, temperature and all working parameters and it displays the progress on the surface map. It is possible to pause and resume the testing if required, so it is more sophisticated to diagnose the hard disk (compared to the Windows scandisk method).

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 1:56pm

Frank Stephens Janos Mathe, thanks for your help. All of my drives are high-capacity, which generally means more platters, more mass, longer spin-up. The USB 2.0 drives all spin down after idle timeout, the USB 3.0 drives are in docking stations which probably leave them spinning (I didn't set the individual drives to spin down). I don't like the power draw, but having Hard Disk Sentinel keep the drives spinning has resulted in reliable operation (one or more drives would have become unresponsive very quickly). Windows was probably blocking Hard Disk Sentinel (during I/O request) if a drive was already unresponsive.

Aug 3 2011 at 4:06pm

Mark Hayes I would like to know if there is or soon will be a professional edition of this software. Looks great.

Aug 3 2011 at 4:13pm

Marco Pivetta Carl Lum: I made the same thing; downloaded from hdsentinel.com.

I agree with you. It´s just an annoying glitch. There should be an option do enter a registration code to the trial or the site should provide the proper trial version.

Here is our suggestion.

Aug 3 2011 at 4:47pm

Frank Stephens Did I miss a setting? When I click on the status window, I get partition information for a couple of my drives but not for the others.

Aug 3 2011 at 6:54pm

Janos Mathe Frank: I suspect that the problem is caused by that (according the report you sent) some of the drives are not in perfect condition, even one is showing 0% health.

Yes, in general, when an error is detected with one or more such hard disks, the complete system may become unresponsible (seems to "hang") until the drive will start to operate normally again or until a (longer) timeout happens when the drive is automatically disconnected from the system.
Before that happens, all software trying to perform I/O on the affected device is blocked by the OS, exactly as you can see.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 9:30pm

Janos Mathe Mark: Thanks!
Maybe please open http://www.bitsdujour.com...uggest=638/
and select "I want this" and/or post a such comment, hopefully for requests, BDJ will organize a such promotion for Pro version in the future.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 9:41pm

Janos Mathe Marco: excuse me for the annoyance and thanks for your suggestion! It'll be considered to offer the trial that way!

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 9:43pm

Janos Mathe Frank: The best would be to see screenshots. I just sent e-mails with some details.

H.D.S. Hungary Vendor - Aug 3 2011 at 10:02pm

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