Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 4.30 (22/2/2013)
Improvements and new features, improved hardware support:
- important update for hard disks / SSDs connected to motherboards with Intel chipsets
- important update for multi-drive enclosures (port multiplier and RAID enclosures)
- important update for various SSDs (Corsair Force GT SSDs, Samsung SSDs, etc.)
- display progress (% complete) on application button during hard disk surface test
- improved support of VANTEX HX4R, Chieftec, Sans Digital external RAID enclosures
- improved support for LSI SAS/SATA RAID controllers and DELL SAS/SATA RAID controllers
- improved support and health detection for various Seagate hard disks, for example Seagate Thin hard disks and Seagate hard disks with special firmware
- improved support for Areca RAID controllers, accessing hard disks and SSDs in different connected enclosures, displaying enclosure number and slot number
- improved support of JMicron JMB36X / Gigabyte GBB36X / HighPoint / VIA RAID controllers under Windows 2003
- added support for newer WD hard disk (WD RED, WD Enterprise RE, etc.)
- support of HighPoint 4522 RAID controller: detecting and displaying connected SATA hard disks (standalone and configured as RAID)
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- fixed periodic false alarms reported by older Intel chipset drivers (providing invalid S.M.A.R.T. information)
- fixed invalid S.M.A.R.T. information reported by LSI SAS RAID controllers for standalone (non-RAID) SATA drives
- fixed display of volume labels in hard disk selector (upper left area) if one or more partitions have no assigned logical drive letter
- general improvements for Chinese language, fixed hard disk temperature symbol in Sidebar Gadget when Chinese language used
- fixed warranty check for Samsung hard disk drives
- fixed startup problem with Drobo enclosures / devices
- improved real time performance graph display
- improved and more stable dynamic DNS update function