Hard Disk Sentinel - утилита для мониторинга и контроля состояния жестких дисков. Позволяет определить потенциальные проблемы, снижение производительности и возможные сбои. Может предупредить пользователя в случае обнаружения неполадок или превышения температуры. Ее возможности явно не покажутся лишними, особенно в случае особой ценности хранимых данных при росте объема накопителей.
Программа Hard Disk Sentinel отслеживает статус жестких дисков, включая показатели температур и параметры S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, технология, встроенная в большинство современных накопителей) для каждого жесткого диска. Также измеряет скорость передачи данных в реальном режиме (данный показатель может быть использован для тестирования или определения случаев заниженной производительности в тех или иных ситуациях).
Работает Hard Disk Sentinel в фоне и постоянно проводит анализ ситуации. В случае выявления ошибки или превышения порога определенных параметров, указанных пользователем, выведет предупреждение. В большинстве случаев на помощь приходит именно технология S.M.A.R.T., так как это один из наиболее быстрых и простых способов отследить изменение особо важных или критических параметров накопителей.
Изменения в программе Hard Disk Sentinel 4.10 (06.08.2012):
Improvements and new features:
option to show power state, hard disk serial number, hard disk comment in Status Window and sidebar gadget to identify hard disk drives easier
show hard disk serial number, hard disk comment in hard disk selector buttons if large buttons used
Hard Disk Sentinel Tray extension: shows hard disk status, temperature on tray and offers complete status when Hard Disk Sentinel is running in service mode under Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 2008 (Pro version only)
option to use custom hard disk icon sets to reflect hard disk/SSD health status and used capacity in Explorer at Configuration -> Disk control. See Icon Sets page for current available icon sets, IconLibMaker for creating custom icon sets.
shows short self test / extended self test progress on hard disk selector buttons
option to re-display short self test / extended self test progress window by clicking the flashing "hard disk test" button
option to Update Disk Information form tray icon context menu
added Dansk language support (translated by Kenneth Rasmussen)
added Polish language support (translated by Wies�aw Jurgielewicz)
added Macedonian language support (translated by Eduard Ambartsumov)
added Indonesian language support (translated by Elda Taluta)
Improved hardware support:
added support for ADAPTEC SATA and SAS RAID controllers (detection of complete status of SATA / SAS hard disk drives in RAID arrays)
added support for IBM ServeRAID M1015 RAID controllers (with LSI firmware)
added support for NewerTech USB 3.0 adapter
added support for Intel X79 / Intel C600 Series Chipset SATA RAID Controller (detection of complete status of SATA hard disk drives in RAID arrays)
added support for ADDONICS external RAID enclosure, CineRAID external RAID enclosure (detection of complete status of SATA hard disk drives in RAID arrays)
improved support of Intel ICH RAID controllers, improved compatibility with Intel RST drivers 10.8, 11.0, 11.5 ...
improved support for LSI, 3ware and HighPoint RocketRAID 620 / 622 on Windows 2003/Windows Home Server
improved support and attribute list for various SSDs and hard disks
improved support for Intel, Samsung, Corsair, Mushkin SSDs
improved detection of hard disk power state on various hard disk controllers / USB adapters
improved AAM / APM / FreeFall management on various controllers and USB adapters
improved compatibility with Samsung hard disk drives reporting non-standard status information
improved support for USB / eSATA RAID enclosures with JMicron / SunPlus chips
improved support for various Toshiba hard disk models
fixed "power on time" for Intel 330/520 series SSDs
fixed missing hard disk status information for COMPAQ SCSI hard disks
fixed missing hard disk status information for standalone SAS drives on Marvell SAS controllers
Bug fixes, further modifications:
fixed daily total read/written amount of data after sleep and wake-up cycle
fixed daily minimum temperature slider
fixed high CPU usage when Status Window is clicked to show partition information
bug fixed on current temperature graph when removable hard disk disconnected and new drive connected
bug fixed after restoring previous statistics, settings and registration information
