Hard Disk Monitoring

Thanks for your message and kind words, really appreciated ;) As I see, probably you already found the answer but I write the details, just to confirm. Generally IDE/SATA hard disks and SSD "internally" store the highest temperature value ever measured by different ways. Usually the "...

Thanks for the tip, yes, it may save time to create both reports, I'll check and adjust in a later version. Maybe if possible, can you please send some report(s) (XML and HTML) to info (at) hdsentinel (dot) com address? While tested with numerous drives, rare to see Linux reports with 90 disks :o Th...

Thanks for your message and attention. Sounds so interesting. Generally Hard Disk Sentinel uses the serial number information provided by the controller from the standard Inquiry Data. That field may have up to 20 characters for serial number, so the whole serial number should be available. So if th...

In most cases, the current pending sector count increases when the operating environment is not 100% stable: cables, connections, insufficient power (or sudden power loss) are frequent causes. This is especially common with external 2.5" USB hard disk drive (especially a such high capacity hard...

Thanks for your message and your kind words, really appreciated ;) No need to worry, what you see is completely normal and expected on this drive (and other drives using SMR technology). On these drives during very intensive disk write operation (for example during the Reinitialise Disk Surface test...

Thanks, I checked the report, yes, I see. Now the Current Pending Sector count is 0 (so probably already fixed by the Disk Repair / Quick Fix tests). I noticed some communication errors on the S.M.A.R.T. page of the affected drive: 199 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count attribute = 163 which also suggests th...

Hi! Not really sure what do you mean "HDSentinel was active on that drive" Did you run a disk test (eg. Disk menu -> Surface test -> Read test) or anything similar? Or did you just see the drive status in Hard Disk Sentinel? Generally there should be no problem if there was no disk activit...

> In my opinion, everything above is normal. Yes, that was normal: the drive was not stable, so the internal hardware self test (the Extended self test) failed and the Disk Repair fixed the issue specifically. >So my problem is why the "SMART 197" and " "SMART 198" inreased ...

Thanks for your message, good to hear that after the option switched back to the default, the Health % greatly improved. If I'm correct, now you see 80% or higher Health which means the SSD probably reported as GOOD (displayed as green), so it does not indicate that the drive is about to fail, but s...

Hello, The Corporate license is generally an installer which can help to install Hard Disk Sentinel Pro on multiple computers (from 10). It is a special installer which automatically installs the license and it is possible to install as pre-configured. It's purpose is to allow easier installation / ...

Sorry to say, but no, Hard Disk Sentinel is not overly cautious - except if you configure specifically to work that way. While generally yes, Hard Disk Sentinel designed to detect and report any single problem (exactly to increase attention) 15 reallocated blocks would never result so low Health: 15...

Hard Disk Sentinel already has option to use the Windows Event Log: when a drive triggers an alert, the information could be saved to the Windows Event Log. Please check Configuration -> Message Settings page, where you can enable what should happen on an alert (for example e-mail should be sent, me...

Yes, this is completely normal and expected: After the Reinitialise Disk Surface test, the disk drive has no partition(s) at all. You need to open the Windows Disk Management window (please use the 9th button in Hard Disk Sentinel main window button bar) as it will recognise the drive and offer to i...

I double checked just to be sure: I can confirm that the custom temperature thresholds are saved and restored properly: the Configuration -> Update -> Backup Configuration function saves these values and the Restore Configuration restores them. It is possible that the values are not automatically us...

Yes, probably this will work. I did not yet test this card personally but there are lots of SAS controllers with similar chipsets so this should be good too.
No need to have a server, you can use in any PC with free PCI express slot.

Yes, this is completely normal and expected: by default Hard Disk Sentinel uses this registry entry to display the disk health status and used space on the drive icons. You can disable this function at Configuration -> Disk Control page: the first option "Modify default hard disk icons in Windo...

Hi, You'd need to use a SAS HBA controller card where you can connect the actual disk drive. Hard Disk Sentinel supports SAS drives at all and SAS HBAs / SAS RAID controllers so should be no problem to detect/report status, health, power on time, temperature and other status/statistical information ...

This image is completely normal, generally for any flash based storage (SSD, pendrive, memory card). Please check these topics for example: https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19743 https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17002 https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2...

This means that the internal electrical element (so not read/write heads, servo/seek element) of the drive reported error, usually this is related to the internal cache memory. Interesting to see that the Health is 100%, so would be nice to examine the complete status of the drive. Please use Report...

Hard Disk Sentinel does not report that the TBW is 45 TB, I wonder why you think that.... Hard Disk Sentinel just reports that the total amount of written data until now is 45 TB. As I tried to explain, the Health % itself is calculated by the SSD itself, Hard Disk Sentinel "just" reads an...