Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.61 (12/3/2020)
- fixed possible BSOD when Intel 750 series NVMe SSD (SSDPEDMW400G4 / SSDPEDMW800G4) used with Intel RST driver 17.8
- fixed possible increase of "Number of error information log entries" count on Samsung NVMe SSDs
- added further protection against problem in Intel AHCI driver 11.0, 11.2
- added support for GEIL ZENITH SSDs
- detect eMMC information on additional eMMC devices
- improved compatibility with LaCie 2Big Quadra v3
- improved reporting of failing SSDs
- improved NVMe sector size detection
- improved support for SK HYNIX GOLD SSDs
- improved support of LEXAR SATA SSDs, PLEXTOR SSDs, Sandisk X300 SSD
- non-English language file updates
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.60 (12/2/2020)
Improvements and new features:
- added support of LSI / Broadcom 9440 Tri-mode SAS / SATA / NVMe RAID controllers: detect NVMe RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of NVMe M.2 SSDs managed by Broadcom 9440 RAID controller, configured as NVMe RAID (in addition to SATA RAID, SAS RAID)
- added support of Highpoint RocketRAID 3740: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
- added support of Adaptec SmartRAID 3152-8i Controller: detect complete hard disk drive status about SATA/SAS hard disk drives and SSDs configured as RAID
- added support of Lenovo 730 series RAID controller: detect hard disk drive status used in RAID configuration
- detect and report NVMe Namespace Information: total addressable sectors, current sector size, LBA format list (possible sector sizes) with performance
- added function to reset workload counters for Samsung PM883 / PM863a SSDs
- added support of KINGSTON SEDC450 series
- added support of KINGSTON KC600 series
- added support of Seagate Nytro SSDs, Innovation IT SSDs
- added support of Realtek RTL9210 NVMe-USB adapters
- added support of KESU USB hard disk / SSD enclosure, JAYCAR XC4687 USB HDD docking station
- added support of Raidsonic IB-1817M-C31 USB - NVMe SSD adapter with updated firmware
- added support of XT-XINTE USB 3.1 Type-C Adapter USB C 10Gbps USB-NVMe adapter
- added support of SSK USB-NVMe adapter
- added support of QNAP TR-004 4-bay USB - SATA RAID hard disk enclosure: detect and display status of hard disk drives used in RAID configuration
- added support of HIKVISION SSDs
- added support of Kingston RBUS... series SSDs, new Kingspec SSDs
- added support of WDC PC SA530 SDATB8Y1T00
Improved hardware support:
- improved support of ASMEDIA ASM2362 USB-NVMe adapter detection and NVMe SSD status reporting
- improved support of various external USB SSDs
- improved support of various SAS SSDs, proper support of Sandisk SAS Optimus Eco SSDs
- improved display of SAS hard disks, SAS SSDs, added further self-monitoring data to the S.M.A.R.T. page of SAS drives
- improved support and correct health display of WD RED SSDs
- improved support of Crucial SSDs, Apacer AS340 / Apacer AS350 series SSDs
- improved detection under Windows XP with AMD chipset
- improved detection under Windows XP with ARECA RAID controllers
- improved detection with several Intel chipsets (both RAID and with standalone disk configuration)
- improved lifetime writes on Micron, Toshiba SSDs
- improved support of ADATA, Kingspec SATA SSDs
- improved support of Samsung Enterprise class SSDs
- improved, extended detection of NVMe SSDs on Intel VROC RAID controller
- improved, extended detection of MaxCache SSDs on Adaptec SATA/SAS RAID controllers
- improved, extended detection on Marvell 9230 SATA RAID controller
- improved compatibility and USB drive status detection with Intel H87 chipset
- improved support of ADATA SSDs
- improved support of KINGSTON HyperX Fury 3D SSD support
- improved reporting of lifetime writes on many SANDISK and LITEON SSDs
- improved support of Lenovo SSDs
- improved support of newer Hitachi SAS Helium (He) drives, reporting additional self-monitoring details
- improved support of Lenovo SSDs: previously health may be 1% only on a new SSD
- improved support of various Kingspec SSDs
- improved support of various Zheino SSDs
- improved support of LSI/DELL SAS/SATA controllers on high number of disks and Cachecade configuration
- improved support of SK Hynix SC308/SC311 SSDs
- improved detection and compatibility with AMD RAID integrated controller
- improved compatibility with DELLBOSS SSD
- improved compatibility with IcyBox RD3620SU3
- improved health display for SCSI-NVMe translation
- improved performance display for eMMC when health drops to 0%
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- completely updated network engine, using TLS 1.2 protocol when sending e-mails
- fixed real-time performance display graph on NVMe SSDs
- improved disk selector on the user inteface, faster redraw/response in case of high number of disk drives
- improved logical drive and NTFS mount point detection and reporting
- improved adjustment window of acoustic level, advanced power management on high-DPI
- improved display of last update date/time for NAS drives
- completely new Turkish language support - thanks for Atyf Zafrak for the translation
- fixed bug in HTML report at logical disk free space graph
