Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems

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Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20

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  • Latest Version

    Hard Disk Sentinel 6.20

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10

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  • Author / Product

    H.D.S. Hungary / External Link

  • Filename

    hdsentinel_setup.zip

  • MD5 Checksum

    9e6c8b5cf6a850242515990c9998bc7a

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Hard Disk Sentinel or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

- 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

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