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Hard Disk Sentinel

SSD and HDD health monitoring and analysis utility for diagnosing and repairing hard drive issues. Created by H.D.S. Hungary

Commercial $ $ $
Windows
Linux
MS-DOS

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems and predict failures. Prevent data loss by automatic and scheduled backup.

Hard Disk Sentinel is listed in

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Links to official Hard Disk Sentinel sites

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Pricing Information

One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $20 and $200

Features

Support for S.M.A.R.T. data Temperature Monitoring Add a feature

Categories

OS & Utilities System & Hardware

Tags

disk-backup facebook-downloader harddisk-diagnostic performance-testing repair-harddisk scan-harddisk

Hard Disk Sentinel (sometimes referred to as HDSentinel, HDS) was added by vargaattila75 in May 2010 and the latest update was made in Oct 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2019. It's possible to update the information on Hard Disk Sentinel or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Main window with menu and quick buttons for faster navigation. Health history graph and textual description about hard disk status.

Store and display S.M.A.R.T. attribute history. Short description of each S.M.A.R.T. parameter is displayed. It is possible to control which parameters should be used to determine disk status and set offset values for the parameters.

Alerts: different actions for yellow and red levels.

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Reviews 4

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