Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 6.20 (29/2/2024)
Improvements and new features:
- added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When custom threshold reached
right click on any attribute on the S.M.A.R.T. page to define custom alert threshold condition:
when Value or Data field is lower, lower or equal, higher, higher or equal, equal or not equal compared to configured threshold - added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk added/connected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert - added new alert option: Configuration -> Alerts -> When disk removed/disconnected
specify disk drive(s) by wildcards or select drives to trigger alert - surface test functions can be used for SAS 4Kn drives formatted to non-standard sector sizes (4160 bytes/sector, 4224 bytes/sector)
- added Slovenian language, thanks for Andraz Poje for the translation
- added complete French help (thanks for Francois MORTEAU)
Improved hardware support:
- added support of Fusion ioMemory / ioScale SSDs: detect and report health, temperature, wearout, lifetime writes, usage statistics
- added support of new combo USB-NVMe / USB-SATA external adapters
- added support of various new industrial (micro) SD cards: detect card status, health, wearout and details about newer Innodisk, Swissbit, Greenliant SD cards
- added support of QNAP QDA-A2AR RAID device (2x2.5" HDD/SSD to single drive): detect complete S.M.A.R.T. status of both drives in RAID configuration
- added support of Silverstone DS223 2x SATA RAID box: detect status of both hard disks / SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, JBOD modes
- added support of i-Tec MySafe 2x M.2 SATA RAID box support: detect status of both M.2 SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, LARGE modes
- added support of Kingston Datatraveler Workspace pendrive: detect health, temperature, lifetime status / statistics
- added support of HPE MR416i-a Gen10+ tri-mode SAS/SATA/NVMe RAID controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
- added support of Crucial X9 Pro external SSD, Crucial X10 Pro external SSD
- added support of CISCO UCS C240 M4 12G Modular Raid controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
- added support of Inateck SA03001 USB 3.0 to IDE/SATA adapter: detect complete status of all 2.5" , 3.5" IDE/ATA and SATA drives
- added support of Lexar E6 USB-NVMe adapter
- added support of Oyen Digital MiniPRO RAID V4: detect status of both hard disks / SSDs in standalone, RAID0, RAID1, JBOD modes
- added support of ServeRAID C100 / C105: Raid controller: detect S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
- added support of Kingston SEDC600 SSD, ADATA SE920 SSD
- improved status detection when AMD RAID used with Microsoft Storage Spaces configuration
- improved status detection and compatibility with password protected WD My Book external drives
- improved compatibility with USB3.0 Super Speed external SATA disk drive enclosure
- improved support of Sabrent NVMe USB adapter
- improved status and Health % reporting for DELL(tm) SSDs
- improved support / compatibility with Adaptec SAS/SATA HBAs
- improved support of MegaRAID 9540-8i, MegaRAID 9560-8i RAID controller: detection of drives in RAID configuration, arrays, hot spare drive(s), NVMe RAID support
- improved support of Seagate Ironwolf SSD
- improved support of Transcend SATA 1 TB SSD
- improved support of various SATA SSDs from unknown/various manufacturers
- improved health % detection of Sandisk SDSSDHII960G
- advanced health % reporting of Micron SSDs with Lenovo firmware
- advanced Disk Specific Information and error reporting of problematic / failing NVMe SSDs
- improved reporting of HIKVISION SATA SSDs, ADATA SATA SSDs
- improved detection/reporting of HOT SPARE drives on various LSI, AVAGO, BROADCOM, INTEL, DELL SATA/SAS controllers
- improved support of some Kingston SATA SSDs, Sandisk SATA SSDs
- improved support of UNIC2 / TXRUI SSDs
- improved support of Sandisk Extreme Pro external SSDs: Disk menu -> Short self test, Extended self test functions are available
- improved compatibility and support with MAXIO Technology SATA and PCIe SSDs
- improved support of multiple Yottamaster 5 bay RAID enclosures, Oyen Digital Mobius RAID enclosures
- improved support of HP SATA/SAS HBAs
- improved reporting of some Kingston SSDs (some firmware versions may previously reported high number of communication errors)
- improved reporting with RaidON InTank iR2622
- improved reporting of Crucial SATA SSD lifetime writes
- improved reporting of various Silicon Power SPCC SSD, Hikvision SATA SSD, Micron SSD, Kingspec SSD, Suneast SSD, EGON SSD
- improved reporting of various Samsung SSD, Sandisk SSD, Patriot P210 SSD, Patriot P220 SATA SSD
- improved reporting of various Intel SSDs, DELL and HP OEM SSD: showing health, wearout, lifetime writes
- improved power on time reporting of some older Fujitsu SATA hard disk drives
- improved compatibility with ATTO SAS/SATA HBA (non-RAID) controllers
- improved compatibility with QNAP multi-drive RAID boxes / enclosures
- improved support of some Samsung SATA SSDs, Kingspec SSDs
- improved power on time reporting on WD SAS drives
- improved detection of disk status in RAID configurations when ARECA RAID controller used with 4Kn formatted SATA hard disk drives
- improved detection with Cachecade configuration on LSI controllers
- improved detection of Sandisk Ultra II SSDs with some USB adapters/docks/enclosures
- improved support and reporting of Intel Pro 5400 SATA SSDs
- detection and reporting of Set sector configuration log in the Device Specific Information section (if supported by the drive)
- added support of ALLIED SATA SSD, FIKWOT SATA SSD
- added detection of additional fake SSDs / pendrives
- improved compatibility with some old USB 2.0 card readers
- improved reporting of various Hitachi SAS hard disks / SSDs
- added/improved support of various SATA SSDs (SK Hynix, Transcend, ADATA, Ramsta)
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- fixed lifetime writes display for 4Kn Seagate SATA hard disk drives
- fixed tray icon images with some special custom scaling values
- fixed backup projects with too long file names / too long paths
- fixed System Management Information always saved to reports even if that option disabled at Configuration -> Message Settings page
- fixed Polish language display during disk test
- improved image quality on some high DPI scale settings
