Hard Disk Sentinel

What's new in this version:

Improvements and new features:
- double click on the Health bar to configure custom health threshold for any hard disk / SSD (registered version only)
- File menu -> Drive connection/Removal event log displays drive connection / removal events (registered version only)
- detailed text description upon different problems (for example communication errors) and links to further details
- determine file stored in any sector of the hard disk drive / SSD: to get information about possible damaged files on unreadable sectors. (works on NTFS/FAT32/FAT16/FAT12 volumes, hard disks, SSDs, removable drives, pendrives, memory cards)
- Disk menu -> Surface test -> View -> Click on a sector to view the sector contents and then on the bottom click on "Detect file information for sector"
- new option: automatically detect and report all possible damaged files at the end of the complete surface scan.
- To enable, select Disk menu -> Surface test and in the new window, select Configuration tab, then on the bottom enable "Detect file information for sectors with errors"
- double click on the "power on time" label or value to show in years / days / hours format (when the device is older than 1 year)
- automatically re-adjust hard disk features (Advanced Power Management, Acoustic Management, Free Fall Sensor sensitivity) after hot-plug of the drive, without re-start (if the option enabled)
- detection of compatibility problems causing possible data corruption / data loss: Hard disk case: Capacity is not correct
- added option to save the contents of the Log page of each hard disks to reports (enable at Configuration -> Message settings -> Detailed report components)
- added option to detect and report System Management BIOS information to reports (enable at Configuration -> Message settings -> Detailed report components)
- improved "low disk space" alerts
- display of Seagate external USB hard disk enclosure model and serial number for warranty purposes

Improved hardware support:
- added support of Samsung 950, 951 NVMe SSDs: detection of complete status including power on time, temperature, read/write statistics, wearout, etc.
- Requires installation of Samsung NVMe driver from Driver Zone page.
- added support of Samsung 950 NVMe Pro M.2 SSD: detection of complete status including power on time, temperature, read/write statistics, wearout, etc.
- Detection with both standard NVMe driver and Samsung NVMe driver from Driver Zone page.
- added support of Intel NVMe SSDs, Intel 750 SSD, INTEL SSDPEDMW400G4, INTEL SSDPEDMW012T4: detecting temperature, health, features, complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. data
- Requires installation of Intel NVMe driver from Driver Zone page.
- added support of Dawicontrol RAID controllers: detect and display complete disk status information about hard disks / SSDs managed by Dawicontrol RAID controllers when the drives used in RAID configuration or standalone mode. Supported controllers: Dawicontrol DC133, DC150, DC154, DC300e/310e, DC324e, DC3410, DC4300/4320, DC600e/610e, DC622e, DC624e.
- Requires installation of latest Dawicontrol driver from Driver Zone page.
- added support of Marvell 9220/9230/9235 hardware RAID controller: detection of hard disk status when RAID/Hyperduo/standalone configuration of hard disks. Tested with Marvell 9230.
- added support of Intel RMS3CC080 SAS/SATA RAID controller: detect hard disk status when drives configured as RAID
- added support of JMicron JMS56X hardware RAID controller: detection of hard disk status when RAID/JBOD/standalone configuration of hard disks
- added support of RAIDON GR2660-B3 dual bay external RAID enclosure: detect and display both hard disks in the RAID configuration
- added support of RAIDON GR3630 2S SB2+ Raid device: detect and display both hard disks in the RAID configuration
- added support of RAIDON iH1010: detect and display both hard disks
- added support of Startech S32SAT3R Internal Drive Mounted Dual SATA RAID Adapter
- added support of Lenovo 720ix SATA/SAS RAID controllers: detection of complete hard disk / SSD information about drives configured as RAID
- added support of Lenovo MR9340-8i RAID controller (ThinkStation FLEX RAID Adapter): detection of complete hard disk / SSD information about drives configured as RAID
- added support of AMD Bolton chipset: detect and report complete status and S.M.A.R.T. information of hard disks / SSDs configured as RAID
- added support for USB 3.1 devices (controllers, enclosures, SATA->USB converters)
- important update for newer Sandisk SSD models, Kingston HyperX Predator
- improved detection and reporting of various SSDs (AData, Crucial, Micron, Kingston, OCZ, Phison, Patriot, Sandisk, Samsung)
- improved support of LSI / Avago controllers in general and when Cachecade feature used
- improves support of Intel RAID controllers, Intel C602 chipset
- improved compatibility with Toshiba external USB 3.0 hard disks
- improved USB attached SCSI (UASP) support
- improved support for SAS SSDs (lifetime and wearout statistics), SAS hard disks
- improved Adaptec RAID controller support, important update for Adaptec controllers
- improved compatibility and support of HP Smart Array SCSI RAID controllers (HP Smart Array 6i, HP Smart Array 6400)
- improved support of Seagate external SSDs
- improved reporting of Lenovo SSHD health and text description
- improved support of Promise 8760 SAS RAID controller
- improved support of Rosewill USB 3.0 RX200R-APU3-25B
- fixed: random seek test frozen on some external USB drives with 4K physical sectors
- fixed: Disk menu -> Surface test -> Disk contents inspector could not show sector contents on some external USB drives with 4K physical sectors
- fixed: real time performance monitoring may stopped after wake up
- fixed: disk surface test may not work on HP tablet PCs to diagnose eMMC card

Bug fixes, further modifications:
- added Korean language support, thanks to pCsOrI for the translation
- improved multi-language support, fixes for Czech and Japanese languages
- fixed surface test window display when German, Dansk, Dutch languages selected
- user interface fixes, corrections
- improved system disk drive icon handling, real-time performance monitoring
- improved power on time calculation
- improved menu display and readability on dark Windows themes
- improved sending network message with NET SEND, longer message with detailed information (on newer Windows OSes, WinSent tool can be used to receive messages/alerts)
- fixed text/HTML/XML report: system memory size may be incorrect on systems with 8 GB or more physical memory
- fixed text/HTML/XML report: last system startup time was incorrect
- fixed problem when exporting S.M.A.R.T. attributes
- minor changes/modifications in e-mail and report generation