Overall, Hard Disk Sentinel supports a range of storage devices, allowing you to keep a constant check on your computer’s performance and health. Within a single status check, you can get information about the temperature, operation, and health of your computer. Also, the hard drive monitor can effectively monitor USB drives and e-SATA drives. HD Sentinel gives access to comprehensive and detailed reports about issues identified during a general analysis. Improves the performance of your PC’s hard drive It utilises the S.M.A.R.T engine, focused on self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting. Since the program runs in the background, you can continue to work with other tools, software, and applications on your PC. Therefore, you can use the hard disk monitor to detect a range of issues in the early stages.

Thus, you don’t need to download, install, or subscribe to third-party tools to diagnose a range of issues with your hard disk.Ĭompared to Paragon Hard Disk Manager and Hard Drive ScanDisk Pro, HD Sentinel ensures constant monitoring of the PC’s hard drive. With this free program, you can monitor and improve the performance of a Windows computer’s SSD and HDD drive, and has been designed to work seamlessly on multiple operating systems. It's very light on resources although the fact that it is continually working on your hard drive means that occasionally you might expect some slow down of your PC's operations.Hard Disk Sentinel is a feature-packed, simple, and reliable tool for hard disk monitoring.

The program issues alerts in the manner of your choosing - which basically means via email, pop-up messages (which can get rather annoying), net messages or event logging.

The program utilises Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) however and unless your hard drive supports this (which most modern ones do) this program won't be of much use to you. It continually performs minor diagnostic tests to see if anything irregular is happening. The program sits in your system tray and monitors the performance of your hard drive at regular intervals. The program continually monitors your PC for tell tale signs that your hard drive is about to die due to corruption or plain and simple burn out. If you don't perform regular backups then I'd say it was essential that you use a tool like HDD Health. Maintain your hard disk's state and functionalityĪdvanced warning of impending hardware doom could one day save you tearing your hair out at losing all your important data.

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