Hi.
I have recently bought two new identical external hard drives to back my data up on. I noticed in HD Sentinel that when I unplug one and plug in the other, it doesn't recognise that it is a different drive, and so the Total Data Read and Total Data Write in Disk Performance is shared. I would like to have individual statistics for each drive. Is this a bug, or do I need to do something? Is there a workaround? Thanks.
two external hard drives, using one set of statistics
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Re: two external hard drives, using one set of statistics
Can you please confirm do you use the latest possible version of Hard Disk Sentinel?
There should be no such "sharing". Each hard disks have individual statistics, the drives identified by together their model ID, firmware version and serial number.
So as long as at least one of these (at least the serial number in this case) is different, then the drives should have separate statistics.
I'd recommend to try the latet possible beta version (now it is: http://www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsenti ... p45011.zip ) and
- use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option when the 1st drive is connected
- then disconnect that drive and connect the other drive
- use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option when the 2nd drive is connected
This would help to investigate the situation, verify what happened (for example if Windows did not create new performance counters for the new hard disk and may really provided the values related to the previous one) and how to improve the situation.
There should be no such "sharing". Each hard disks have individual statistics, the drives identified by together their model ID, firmware version and serial number.
So as long as at least one of these (at least the serial number in this case) is different, then the drives should have separate statistics.
I'd recommend to try the latet possible beta version (now it is: http://www.hdsentinel.com/beta4/hdsenti ... p45011.zip ) and
- use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option when the 1st drive is connected
- then disconnect that drive and connect the other drive
- use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option when the 2nd drive is connected
This would help to investigate the situation, verify what happened (for example if Windows did not create new performance counters for the new hard disk and may really provided the values related to the previous one) and how to improve the situation.