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Hard Disk Sentinel

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Provides advanced monitoring for HDDs and SSDs with S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, predicts hardware failures, schedules automatic backups, benchmarks drive performance, logs temperatures, repairs disk errors, supports tests, notifications, and multi-drive configurations.

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

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Country of Origin

  • HU flagHungary
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Windows  both 32 and 64 bit versions
  • Linux
  • MS-DOS
4.9 / 5 Avg rating (7)
73likes
7comments
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Features

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  1.  Temperature Monitoring
  2.  Support for S.M.A.R.T. data
  3.  Data Protection

 Tags

  • health-status
  • facebook-downloader
  • smart
  • disk-backup
  • performance-testing
  • scan-harddisk

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Hard Disk Sentinel information

  • Developed by

    HU flagH.D.S. Hungary
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

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

    Average rating of 4.9
  • Alternatives

    28 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

OS & UtilitiesSystem & Hardware

Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Hard Disk Sentinel, and it has gotten 73 likes

Hard Disk Sentinel was added to AlternativeTo by vargaattila75 on May 11, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 3, 2025. Hard Disk Sentinel is sometimes referred to as HDSentinel, HDS.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Leo K
Oct 16, 2019
6

this is one of the best program for drive information, live monitoring and Testing. I have been using it for many years. [+] Rich with features. [+] Top level service support. [+] Storage information Database [+] portable Version.

TBayAreaPat
Aug 28, 2022
1

My system was acting up and Hard Disk Sentinel showed very clearly that the Disk Drive was ready to go in 30 days. I AM glad that I found out before I lost data. Free version does have a point of annoyance though.. The default starts with Windows and then does a countdown making you wait before you can shut it off. You can change that setting under: Configuration..Preferences.

scruffyburger
Sep 27, 2021
1

Great program for active drive monitoring, also includes benchmark and surface scans. Great price, includes family licenses

Lehuga ntaps
Aug 3, 2021
2

It's a great app to monitor your HDD or even SSD life

mk2k
Jul 28, 2020
1

CrystalDiskInfo stopped enumerating my HDDs after a certain amount - HDS however works like a treat!

Alex Dodd
Mar 19, 2018
3

This is by far the most comprehensive tool i've come across for testing lots of hard drives, destructively or not. Keeping tabs of the ones I buy over time, and decommissioning ones that are obviously failing before they become truly trouble. There isn't anything else like it.

persistentfool
Sep 15, 2016
5

I love this app. It is lightweight, unobtrusive, information rich, and can be a big money-saver. It notified me of a drive having a small percentage of errors. No other utility I know will do this (as well as disk temperatures, etc.) Because I was warned I updated my backup of the disk (was not my boot or primary disk) and it failed soon after.

What is Hard Disk Sentinel?

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

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