Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 4.40 (11/7/2013)
Improvements and new features:
- displaying health (actual and original) during Disk -> Surface test functions
- improved display of S.M.A.R.T. attribute changes: automatically showing more dates based on screen resolution
- double click on S.M.A.R.T. attribute graphs to toggle showing all measured values
- right click on S.M.A.R.T. attribute graph to export all displayed values
- improved hardware self tests (Short self test, Extended self test) on various internal and external drives (previously reported "Interrupted with hardware/software reset" caused by special power management implementations)
- improved report of hard disk status and attributes for SCSI / SAS hard disks
- improved re-adjust Automatic Acoustic Management / Advanced Power Management levels on startup when required
- improved "sending files in e-mail" project
- Windows 8.1 (preview) OS support
- log data communication errors
- added Slovak language support (thanks to Lukas Surin for translation)
Improved hardware support:
- added support of Seagate External hard disks, newer Seagate USB hard disks, FreeCom external hard disks
- added support of Adaptec 7xxx series RAID controllers in RAID mode: detection of complete hard disk status when SATA or SAS hard disks configured as RAID arrays.
- added support of Adaptec 2200S, 2120S, 2130S, 2230S SCSI controllers in RAID mode: detection of complete hard disk status when SCSI hard disks configured as RAID arrays.
- added support of PROMISE SuperTrak RAID controllers in RAID mode: detection of complete hard disk status when SATA hard disks configured as RAID arrays.
- added support of PROMISE FastTrak RAID controllers in RAID mode: detection of hard disks in the arrays and their general S.M.A.R.T. status
- added support of PROMISE enclosure information: displaying fan speed, temperature and voltage provided by the Promise enclosure
- added support of IBM M1115, SuperMicro SMC2108 RAID controller: detection of complete hard disk status when SATA hard disks configured as RAID arrays.
- added support of HighPoint RS5122B USB docking station
- added support of HighPoint Datacenter DC7280 controller
- general improvements for external USB 3.0 multi-drive enclosures
- improved support for Win XP 64 bit & different RAID controllers (Gigabyte, VIA, JMicron, etc.)
- improved support of JMicron USB 3.0 / eSATA RAID enclosures
- improved support of LSI, Intel SAS/SATA RAID controllers, displaying hot spare and unconfigured drive(s)
- improved support of HighPoint, Areca, LSI RAID controllers
- improved support of various hard disks (high capacity, 2-3-4 TB models) and newer SSD models (ADATA, OCZ, Samsung, Plextor, etc)
- improved compatibility for various card readers, pendrives
- improved detection of standalone (non-RAID) hard disks with HighPoint and Areca controllers
- improved support and compatibility for newer Intel RST drivers (12.x versions)
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- fixed: service mode startup problems on some non-English Windows systems
- fixed: previous versions may displayed error at startup if WMI libraries damaged / corrupted
- fixed: webStatus displayed partial information if Intel SSD used in the system
- fixed: disk-specific settings were not saved for some Intel SSD models
- fixed: startup may failed when Acronis software used to split 2+ TB hard disks
- fixed: Portable version startup after uninstallation of license from the actual system
- fixed: custom icon set setting may reset after standby