Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20 (23/3/2018)
Improvements and new features:
- added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices
(see How to: monitor Network Attached Storage (NAS) status ) - added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related to disks and storage subsystem. By this option, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro detects if Windows saves errors/warnings to SYSTEM event log and report recent problems detected while Hard Disk Sentinel is running/monitoring and use them in calculation of health to show issues, degradations (registered Pro version)
- display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection
- added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite, Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports
- detection and reporting new ATA standards and new ATA / Serial ATA features on Information page: Device sleep (DevSleep), Service interrupt, Device encrypts all data, IDLE IMMEDIATE, Nominal form factor, NCQ Streaming and autosense, Rebuild assist, Hybrid information
- display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs
- displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page
- displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives)
- improved WRITE testing (Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read, Reinitialise disk surface) to prevent "access denied" error
- updated Help to cover new functions, features
- completely redesigned tray icon handling: better sort/move/order tray icons under Windows 7, 8.1, 10
- improved disk surface test performance with Intel, LSI, Dell SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs
- improved disk surface test performance with hard disks formatted with 520 / 528 bytes/sector
- improved text description on various errors/problems
Improved hardware support:
- detection of NVMe SSD status when Intel RAID configured:
detect complete status of standalone NVMe SSDs and NVMe SSDs used as RAID.
displaying Highest possible transfer rate and Negotiated transfer rate for NVMe SSDs - added support of integrated AMD RAID controller on motherboards with Ryzen CPUs: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations
- added support for ATTO RAID Rxxx controllers:
detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data
of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations. Detect SAS drives, their status and error counters
when RAID configuration used
displaying RAID controller temperature for ATTO RAID controllers - added detection of complete disk status when ASMEDIA ASM1352R external USB RAID controller used: detection of complete status when RAID 0 / RAID 1 / LARGE / JBOD confiuration used
- added support of RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31, Oyen Digital Minipro RAID USB 3.1 enclosure
- added support of Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMT3PB080: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA/SAS drives managed in RAID configurations.
- added support of ASMEDIA ASM109x RAID controllers with proper firmware: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID0, RAID1, SPAN/large configurations
- improved detection of Intel onboard RAID controller and drive status (previously some RAID disks could be missing, especially with multiple arrays and newer Intel RST drivers)
- improved industrial SD card detection, added support of industrial SD cards with newer firmware versions
- added support of Western Digital WD SSDs
- improved detection of FASTDISK SSD
- fixed health of Sandisk SSD PLUS 256 GB external SSD
- improved support and reporting of SK Hynix SSDs (including SK Hynix SC311)
- added support of Silicon Motion SM2258, SM2259 controllers
- added support of Silicon Motion SM2260 NVMe SSDs
- added support of ADATA SU800 SSD
- added support of KingDian SSD, Kingspec SSD, newer Kingston SSD, Patriot Blast and further SSDs
- improved NVMe SSD status detection under Windows 7, Windows 8.1 32 bit, added support of Plextor M8PeY NVMe SSD
- improved error reporting with Marvell 9230 RAID controllers
- improved detection time and compatibility with JMicron external enclosures
- improved detection with HP Smart Array P812 RAID controller
- improved detection of LSI / DELL RAID controllers when RAID 50 used
- improved detection of disk status information with newer HP Smart Array controllers, drivers and HP servers
- improved compatibility with Sandisk X300, Corsair Force LE, Micron SSDs
- improved compatibility with LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS controllers, displaying SLOT number in Disk Interface field
- improved compatibility and error reporting for LiteON SSDs
- improved power on time count display of Toshiba hard disk drives
- improved compatibility with 4Kn (native 4K sector size) Enterprise hard disk drives
- improved compatibility with Marvell 91xx, 92xx controllers in standalone and RAID mode
- improved compatibility with LSI MegaRAID 8208 controller
- improved support of new Intel SSDs
- improved compatibility with some pendrives, memory card readers
- improved support of HP SAS SSDs, STEC SAS SSDs
- improved lifetime writes of various Samsung and Sandisk SSDs
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- fixed: large external hard disks could be locked (was not possible to use safe remove)
- improved WMI support: no unwanted events in WMI activity log
- option to keep last NN archives during backup: increased to keep up to 1000 archives
- fixed: FTP projects did not clear old archives if "keep last N archives" option used
- fixed problem when disk(s) selected to be displayed when they are offline and their data files removed
- fixed: log of issued alerts not saved with Backup Configuration
- updated language files (thanks for translators)
- minor interface and tray icon changes
- fixed 64-bit world wide ID field
