Updates in Hard Disk Sentinel 4.00 (1/2/2012)
Improvements and new features:
- Portable version: runs without installation and without modification of local system (PRO version)
- Disk menu -> Online Warranty Check: verify drive warranty status on manufacturer website
- Configuration -> Advanced options: option to change data folder location (PRO version)
- option to enter comment (tag) for each hard disks
- option to copy single line to clipboard from "Information" page after right-click popup menu
- hard disk surface test improvements
- option to export transfer rate values after surface test
- last detection timestamp displayed on the bottom status line
- added /TXTREPORT [filename], /HTMLREPORT [filename] command line parameters to quickly save complete report
- Reset workload counters function for Intel SSD
- displaying lifetime reads / writes for specific hard disks with support (Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba)
- option to automatically re-adjust advanced power management / acoustic management settings on startup if required
- added Belarusian language support (translated by Yuri Petrashko)
- added digital signatures to files
Improved hardware support:
- added support for DELL RAID controllers
- added support for HP USB external drives
- added support for Marvell 63xx/64xx SAS RAID controllers (detection of SAS hard disk drives in RAID array)
- improved support and attribute list for Sandforce SSD, Samsung SSD, Intel SSD models
- improved support for Crucial SSD, Kingston SSD
- improved support for USB hard disk drives and USB adapters
- improved compatibility for Marvell SATA controllers
- improved SCSI/SAS hard disk drive support: advanced health calculation, power on time display, test log
- improved detection of hard disk power state
- improved short / extended self test starting on Windows 7
- improved advanced power management / acoustic management configuration
- improved support for RAID 10 arrays on LSI controllers
- improved RAID support under Windows 2003 x64
- improved functionality after waking up from standby with some USB hard disk drives
- detecting drives A: and B: if they are associated with hard disks / SSDs
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- using local APPDATA folder for Windows scheduler configuration files (.VBS files) under Windows Vista, 7, 2008, 8
- improved real-time performance detection
- bug fixed with tray icons under Windows 7 x64
- bug fixed with "registry-export" projects
- online attribute comparison and tray icon problems fixed with Samsung 2.5" SSDs