Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.30 (17/7/2018)
Improvements and new features:
- improved installation when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active
- display notification and ask for whitelisting when Controlled Folder Access function in Windows Defender is active which prevents access/testing of disks and detection of disk status information
- detect and display TRIM status for SATA, NVMe SSDs correctly again after April 2018 update of Windows 10
- displaying additional NVMe functions / optional features
- improved connection and on-line registration, activation
- improved report sending via Report menu -> Send test report to developer option
- improved / changed automatic update
- manual update asks for confirmation of the update when new version found
Improved hardware support:
- improved Intel RAID detection, LSI RAID detection
- HP RAID: improved reporting of SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utilization. Added Remaining Days Until Wearout value to S.M.A.R.T. page
- added support of Community OFA NVMe driver for NVMe SSDs
- added support of Apacer APS25AF4120G SSD (SM130-25)
- display health status correctly of new Kingston A400 series SSDs (may reported 0% on the beginning of lifetime)
- improved NVMe M.2 SSD detection on Windows 7
- improved detection of external RAID boxes
- improved health of various Toshiba SSDs
- improved support of new Crucial SSDs
- improved power on time display for various IBM, Seagate, Hitachi SAS hard disk drives
- improved power on time display for various Toshiba SATA hard disk drives
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- fixed: write tests may show "Access denied" when the default "Lock volume" option enabled on external pendrive, memory card
- fixed: show error when there is no internet connection when update initiated
- improved showing single tray icon when "Display only highest temperature" option enabled
- improved multi-drive testing
- improved current temperature graph
