v5.7
Improvements and new features:
- added option: Include problem overview in alerts (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only).
- added option: Alert about problematic drive(s) only (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only).
- added links to text descriptions: show links with underline and option to click on them to open in browser automatically.
- added support of DELL PERC Software RAID controllers: DELL PERC S100/S300, DELL PERC S110, DELL PERC S130, DELL PERC S140: detect all connected hard disks/SSDs and their health, temperature and status information (configured as RAID or standalone).
- added support of Broadcom 9500 series Tri-mode SAS / SATA / NVMe RAID controllers: detect SATA / SAS / NVMe RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of drives managed by Broadcom 95xx RAID controller, configured as RAID.
- added support of WD BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD: display real health, wearout, lifetime writes, S.M.A.R.T. status of SSDs.
- added support of HighPoint 7505 NVMe RAID controller: detect the status information of NVMe SSDs used in standalone and RAID mode.
- added support of ROG RAIDR Express PCIe: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information.
- added support of ORICO 3559U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure.
- added support of Yottamaster 4-bay and FS5U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure.
- added support of KIOXIA EXCERIA SATA / NVMe SSDs.
- added health display for LITEON ECE Dell-specific SSDs.
- added support of Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB NVMe SSD.
- added support of Crucial CT500P1SSD8 / CT1000P1SSD8, Micron 9300 Max (Micron NVMe driver).
- added support of ATP AF8GUD3-WAAXX, AF16GUD3-WAAXX, AF32GUD3-WAAXX industrial SD cards.
- added support of ADATA SE760 external SSD.
- added support of RaidSonic Icy Box IB-1817M-C31, RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-1824ML-C31 NVMe-USB adapter.
- detect up to 240 hard disk drives/SSDs.
- added support of updated Realtek USB-NVMe firmware.
- added support of OWC Aura SSD: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information.
- added support of AXE Memory external SSD.
- added support of Bulldozer, AFOX SSDs.
Improved hardware support:
- improvements, detection fixes for latest Windows Insider Preview builds.
- improved compatibility with Intel Optane configurations.
- improved support of Samsung 980 PRO series SSDs.
- improved display of lifetime writes with HP RAID configuration.
- improved health/status display of ADATA SX8100, XPG Spectrix S40 NVMe SSDs.
- improved detection with LSI / Avago / Broadcom / DELL / IBM / Intel SAS RAID controllers.
- improved health reporting with Patriot Burst, Silicon Power SSDs.
- improved power on time reporting for Toshiba MK2565GSX.
- improved compatibility with various ADATA SSDs (650/750/760/800 series).
- improved compatibility with Intel VROC and Micron 2300 NVMe SSDs.
- improved detection and status / power on time reporting of WD SAS hard disks.
- improved health display and reporting for WD Green / WD Blue series SSDs.
- improved support of LSI MegaRAID 9460 tri-mode (NVMe/SAS/SATA) RAID controller.
- minor corrections for SK Hynix, Sandisk SSDs, Silicon Power SSDs, XPG SPECTRIX S40, Patriot P210.
- improved support of Startech S352BU33RER, ORICO 9548RU3, CFI-B8283ERGG external multi-drive / RAID enclosures.
- improved detection and reporting of different Kingspec SSDs, INTEL SSDSC2BF180A5L, Micron 550 SSD.
- improved detection and reporting of White Label WL500 hard disks.
- improved detection of RAID 10 arrays on Intel RAID controllers.
- improved detection of SATA hard disks / SSDs with AMD Bottom RAID controller driver 9.3.
- improved detection of SATA hard disks / SSDs with AMD StoreMI 2.0 driver 9.4.
- improved detection with AMD RAID controller (scsiport) driver under Windows XP.
- improved detection of MaxDigital hard disk drives.
- improved power on time display of Hitachi SAS hard disks (HUH721010AL5200).
- improved hard disk status, health, temperature detection with MD4000GBDS hard disks.
- improved support of Swissbit industrial M.2 SATA SSD.
- improved support of Lenovo WD4001FYYG SAS hard disk.
- improved health calculation for NVMe SSDs.
- improved and extended detection of Intel VROC SSDs in NVMe SSD RAID configurations with higher number of SSDs.
- improved detection of HP Smart Array RAID controllers when multiple arrays configured on same physical disk drives.
- improved compatibility with HFS1T9G32FEH SSD, SSDPR-CX400-256 SSD, Silicon Power SSD, Toshiba SSDs.
- improved support and lifetime writes display of several LITEON SSDs.
- improved compatibility and detection performance with LSI SAS3 HBA.
- improved support of 4Kn SATA hard disk drives, showing "4Kn" on the Information page.
- display warning upon possible compatibility issue if 4Kn drive used on older system.
- improved compatibility with Intel SSDSCKKB240G8R, Intel SSDSC2KB019T7R, THNSF81D92CSE.
v5.3 [Jul 21, 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.
v5.2 [Mar 28, 2018]
- added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices.
- 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.
v5.0 [Mar 8, 2017]
Fixed compatibility issue with LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers.
v4.7 [Jan 29, 2016]
Power on time display fixes for older Maxtor hard disks
Updated Dutch language file.
v4.6 [Jan 17, 2015]
Improvements and new features:
showing current driver version and date on Information page for the current hard disk controller / motherboard chipset
showing Disk Controller and controller capability for USB drives on Information page
automatically install HDSentinel.ini (pre-configured configuration file) if available in the folder of the installer
advanced hard disk surface test error detection / reporting method
improved hard disk error logs
improved real-time performance monitoring
improved capacity-check: reporting if drives over 2 TB can't be properly utilised due to OS / controller restrictions
Improved hardware support:
added support for HP Smart Array RAID controllers: detecting and reporting error counters, temperature and health status, possible changes/degradations, SSD wearout provided by the RAID controller for SATA / SAS hard disks, SSDs.
Tested with HP Smart Array E200, P400, P410, P420 and embedded B120i controllers.
added support for Accusys hardware RAID enclosures: detection of hard disk status of Accusys 76510, 75170, etc.
added support for RaidON MR2020-2S-S2R hardware RAID enclosure: detection of hard disk status configured in RAID 0 / RAID 1
added support for CineRAID CR-H212 RAID enclosure and RAID enclosures with Prolific USB RAID chipset: showing complete hard disk status of both hard disks in all (standalone, BIG / JBOD, RAID0, RAID1) modes
added support of Intel RMS25CB080 RAID controller (complete hard disk status detection of drives configured in RAID mode)
added support of WD Black 2 hybrid drives
improved compatibility with ASMedia SATA controllers (integrated and add-on cards) with newer drivers
improved support for LSI MegaRAID 9361 SAS controller, Dell PERC H710P RAID controller
improved reporting of TRIM function on different motherboard chipsets, disk controllers
improved SAS expander / enclosure temperature detection
improved support of Adaptec, Avago, Intel, Promise, LSI SAS RAID controllers
improved support of various Samsung hard disks
improved support and status reporting of hard disks with Lenovo-specific firmware
improved support of AData, Corsair, Crucial, Intel, Kingmax, Kingfast, Kingston, LiteOn, OCZ, Plextor, PNY, Samsung, Sandisk, Smartbuy, Toshiba, Transcend SSDs
improved support of SanDisk Extreme pendrives
improved compatibility with Intel RST driver 12.9 and newer
improved compatibility with Toshiba SAS hard disks
improved compatibility with USB 3.0 IDE/SATA "combo" adapters
improved support of Silicon Image RAID controllers with mutliple array / standalone disk configuration
improved compatibility with external RAID enclosures with JMicron chipsets, do not display hard disks twice when they hard disks are in standalone (non-RAID, port multiplier) mode
improved support of 2 TB 2.5" notebook hard disks
improved compatibility with Seagate Freeagent Dekstop drives, external USB 3.0 hard disks / enclosures / docking stations
improved reporting of CF Card status (with CF->IDE or CF->SATA adapters)
improved S.M.A.R.T. reporting for SCSI / SAS hard disks: showing accumulated power condition transitions, load/unload cycles (if supported by HDD)
Bug fixes, further modifications:
fixed slow write test performance with LSI / Avago / Dell PERC / IBM / Intel SAS RAID controllers
fixed online warranty check link for Seagate, Hitachi drives
database updates, modifications
improved multi-language support
Monitors and alerts administrator of hard disk SMART attributes and bad sectors.
