Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.15: www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_47115-sdsew.zip - improved compatibility with Areca RAID controllers - improved compatibility with Intel / LSI embedded Megaraid controllers and newer drivers Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.14: www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_47114-rrtop.zip - added option to use TLS / STARTTLS in e-mail configuration regardless of port (previously used automatically only when port 587 specified) - improved write tests / disk wipe functions (Disk menu -> Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read test, Reinitialise disk surface test) - improved multi-select of disk surface tests - added more information to be accessible by WMI service (added power on hours, bad sector count, weak sector count, comm.issue count, spin retry count, trim status, device status and complete S.M.A.R.T.) - improved support of HighPoint RAID controllers - improved support of Sandisk Extreme pendrives (reported 0% health, indicating failure on new devices due to special S.M.A.R.T. attributes) - improved support of Kingston and OCZ SSDs Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.11: www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_47111-ekkop.zip - added option to test multiple hard disks by Disk menu -> Short self test / Extended self test (registered Pro version only) - added option to test multiple hard disks by Disk menu -> Surface test functions, by same test methods/options (registered Pro version only) - added option to specify maximum try count in Disk menu -> Surface test functions before starting the test (Configuration tab) - added detection again of Via Labs Inc VL711 bridge chip - if the detection is safe (detection completely disabled in 4.71 version) - improved efficiency of Disk menu -> Surface test -> Repair disk drive test - improved detection and reporting of file information if file(s) used unreadable/repaired sectors - added hour, minute, second information to file names when disk test results automatically saved after test completion - improved display of logical drive informaton on 4K (UHD) displays - improved UASP handling, showing USB Attached SCSI (UASP) in the Interface line on the Information page - improved support of older SCSI HP Smart Array 642 controllers - improved support of LSI SATA/SAS HBA (Host Bus Adapters), improved power on state and disk self test functions with such controllers - improved support of JMicron external RAID enclosures and standalone devices with JMicron 56x chipsets - improved support of OCZ, Samsung sSDs - added support of newer SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs, Kingston SSDs - automatic save of complete report upon disk status change/degradation (registered version only) - fixed: status window display with high resolution - fixed: automatic saving test result images after test completion sometimes saved wrong window contents - fixed: disk tray icon could be completely missing if the comment was too long - fixed: Copy to clipboard function on logical disk information page was not working - fixed: disk alert window health list of all disk drives connected - fixed: LSI embedded controllers may lock up systems completely when accessed. Do not attempt detection when such controller found - fixed: do not show capacity-warning if Paragon GPT loader used Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.10: www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_47110-xxker.zip - added new disk testing method: Repair disk drive (Disk menu -> Surface test) designed to repair weak sectors, force the hard disk to stabilize problems and force reallocation of bad sectors (if required) can be used on even system drive with running operating system (Pro version only) - added manual repair of any disk sector in Disk Contents Inspector: use Disk menu -> Surface test -> View (or start any surface test) and click on the disk surface map to view the raw contents of any sector. Go to the appropriate sector and if it is unreadable/reports error, the Repair button attempts to repair that (Pro version only) - increased Configuration window to improve readability and visibility - added support of high-DPI displays, including but not limited to 4K displays with high DPI scaling - added option to perform write testing with any byte, byte/character sequence Disk menu -> Surface test -> Write test -> Configuration page -> Write pattern Specify 0xAA 0xBB etc. to specify hexadecimal sequence - added option to automatically save all results of disk tests: Configuration -> Advanced options -> Automatically save disk test results to folder saves images/graphs, log, results, block performance details after Disk menu -> Surface test functions saves image after Disk menu -> Random seek test function saves text report and brief log after Disk menu -> Short self test / Extended self test functions - added option to perform Automatic detection based on disk utilization (Configuration -> Advanced options) automatically prevent detection if the disk utilization shows that the hard disk is inactive, there is no data transfer, no read/write commands (based on the Disk Performance page) - added option to Configuration -> Message settings to execute external command (or BAT file) when alert triggered. The following environment variables set to be accessible from the started external command (or BAT file): HDS_TimeStamp : date and time of the actual alert in fixed format yyyymmdd hhmmss HDS_TimeStampClean : date and time of the alert in user-friendly format (current Windows regional setting) HDS_Host : current host (computer) name HDS_Alert : the alert (eg. Overheat) HDS_Disk : affected disk(s) HDS_Threshold : threshold configured (contain Celsius/Fahrenheit or % symbols) HDS_ThresholdValue : threshold configured (only the number) HDS_Health : generic health information of all drives HDS_Partition : generic partition information of all drives HDS_LowestDiskHealth: the lowest health % value of all drives - improved detection and compatibility with Marvell 9230 RAID controllers - improved detection, compatibility and reponse time for LSI / Dell / Avago SAS HBA controllers - improved compatibility with TOSHIBA SSD, Intel NVMe SSD - improved power on time detection and display of many SAS/SCSI hard disks and SAS SSDs - improved support of 1.8" hard disk drives - full support of non-standard byte-per-sector values: SAS hard disks formatted with 520 bytes/sector or 528 bytes/sector. Show bytes-per-sector for SCSI/SAS drives too. - all disk tests (Disk menu -> Surface test functions, Disk menu -> Random seek test, Disk menu -> Short/Extended self tests) work with hard disks formatted with 520 bytes/sector or 528 bytes/sector - added support of new Kingston, Crucial SSDs, improved support of Sandisk SSDs - added support of Supermicro SMC2008 SAS/SATA RAID controller - added support of FTS PRAID EP400i SAS/SATA RAID controller - show started test type after the test completes in the popup window - fixed: some versions were not working under Windows 98, ME, NT4 - now working again - user interface fixes, modifications Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.7: http://www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_4717-ddmfr.zip - added support for InnoDisk industrial (micro) SD memory cards: detection of complete status, health, lifetime writes and additional statistics. - added support for Delkin industrial (micro) SD memory cards: detection of complete status, health, lifetime writes and additional statistics. - added support for industrial (micro) SD memory cards and USB devices based on Hyperstone controllers: detection of complete status, health, lifetime writes and additional statistics. - added support for KINGSTON SUV400S37120G SSD - added support for additional NVMe SSDs, complete status detection of Samsung PM951 SSD - added support for Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe SSD - added support of HP Smart Array H240 RAID controllers - improved support of Intenso SSDs - improved support of Maxtor ATLAS SCSI / SAS hard disks - updated installer - updated digital signature Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.5c: http://www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_4715c-mmrxb.zip - added support for MagicRAM industrial (micro) SD memory cards: detection of complete status, health, lifetime writes and additional statistics. To enable, please select the card reader device from the list of drives and click on the Control device-specific detection label on the right, below the text description area. A new window appears, where it is possible to enable the detection. You may click on the Auto Detect button to verify if the device is responding to the detection. If yes, then MagicRAM device type will be automatically selected. Note: in the unregistered version, the above procedure need to be done every time the software started. - added option to log alerts to Windows event log (Configuration -> Message settings -> Add to Windows event log) - added option to provide disk status information via WMI (Configuration -> Advanced options -> Provide status information by WMI) Note: registered version only, contact info@hdsentinel.com for example use - improved Areca RAID controller support when multiple RAID arrays used - improved support of ADATA SSDs - improved support of external Orico, Sabrent, Sharkoon DriveLink Combo devices - improved Russian, Chinese language support Hard Disk Sentinel Pro beta version 4.71.3: http://www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsentinel_pro_setup_4713-sdeeq.zip - added detection of LTO tape drives: detect and display health, temperature, cleaning / media status. Tested with IBM Ultrium LTO5, Tandberg LTO5 tape drives - added support of HP Smart Array P440, B140i RAID controller: detect status of SATA / SAS hard disks, SSDs managed and configured into RAID array(s) - improved support of various HP RAID controllers (Smart Array 6400, 642) - fixed slower response and problems with Areca SATA RAID controllers - added support of SAS drive detection on Areca controllers: now all SATA / SAS hard disks, SSDs should be detected and displayed managed by Areca SATA RAID controllers - added support of SMC LSI 2208 SAS RAID controller - added/improved support of single and RAID enclosures built with JMicron JMS56x USB 3.0 chipset - added support of Prolific PL3507 IDE-USB bridge - improved support of VIA, JMicron RAID controllers - improved power on time report of Fujitsu SCSI hard disks - improved support of Sandisk, Zheino and mSATA Kingston SSDs - improved XML report output with Portable version - show comment field in the Open status of offline disk(s) window to help identify drives - added "lifetime writes" to TXT / HTML / XML reports