User Reviews

• It BSOD's my W10 Home PC

  rocks911July 5, 2017

  Pros

  Great product if it would work

  Cons

  BSOD's my Windows 10 PC

  Summary

  I had this utility when I had a Windows 7 PC and it saved me big time. It notified that a HDD was failing so I swapped HDD's and transferred all the data, so I was very pleased with this app. I updated my OS to Windows 10 Home and now this program BSOD's the PC. AQs soon as the service starts I get a blue screen with the message "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart". It does this every time. I am just now trying this app again to see if maybe the newest iteration solved this issue. It hasnt. C'mon guys, lets get this working!

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• Best Ever Product

  tomclarke98November 11, 2013

  Pros

  Just Awesome.

  Cons

  No problem found.

  Summary

  Hard disk healthy should be your top priority when it comes to your computer. Potential problems, degradations and even failures can lead to losing the entire data on the disk. Hard Disk Sentinel is a tool that can help monitor your HDD. The software with a nice interface and with an intuitive layout. Considering the complex and advanced functions of this app, the simple UI helps us to use. Main window we can also see a complex list of data about our disk drive, such as the serial number, interface, model ID, firmware revision, number of sectors and many other details. A Hard Disk Sentinel can monitor various things about your disks, such as temperature and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) attributes. We can also perform tests with this program.

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• great freebee

  BrusopOctober 21, 2012

  Pros

  Always good to know about sectors going bad on your hardrive and how hot it is.

  Cons

  complicated

  Summary

  good little program. I don't have going at boot.

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• Detailed information and excellent support

  GP_dadNovember 10, 2011

  Pros

  I couldn't get my external 3 TB disk drive to work on an older PC and emailed their support team. I received a prompt reply from Janos, one of the developers, advising me my HD enclosure's firmware needed to be updated--and he gave me the update link as well. That's reason enough to buy it.

  Cons

  Can't find anything.

  Summary

  Comprehensive product offering extremely detailed disk drive information and backed by excellent support.

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• Brilliant program

  jnieurzyla-1November 8, 2011

  Pros

  Picked up a failing backup drive, though it was late, but that was because I did not have sentinel installed.

  Cons

  Cannot fault, except some parts of it you have to pay to use.

  Summary

  One the best programs available, everyone should be using it.

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• great freebee

  BrusopOctober 4, 2011

  Pros

  gives objective info about drive temperature, bad sectors that have been shut down and weakened sectors. Love estimated days of expected life left for hard drive

  Cons

  none really

  Summary

  can help you decide if it's time to replace a hard drive or not

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• Works Very Well, Not Very Elegant Looking Though

  alm1024November 17, 2009

  Pros

  Can actively monitor hard drive temperature and shut down the computer if things get a bit hot. It actually works with all of my pass-through drives in my raid array!

  Cons

  Free version is missing a fair bit of functionality which is a bit of a tease because you can see the options, but not check them.

  Summary

  I agree with the editor's review, it will not win any beauty prizes but it get the job done. In the free version you can set the computer to shut down when it hits the caution (yellow) threshold but not the critical (red) threshold, take note though that you can change what temperatures these alerts occur so you can still choose to shut down you computer at your desired HDD temperature cut-off. The free version a bit restrictive, and you can see all the cool looking options that are in the pro version but you cannot select them. I have used several similar programs (I will not name them!) and they have turned out to be useless because they just monitor the temperature and watch your HDD's slowly cook while you're at work/school instead of shutting down your PC to protect your precious data. I nearly had a fit when my four new 1TB HDD's were nearly too hot to touch and the "SMART" monitoring program I was using was happily telling me my HDD's are roasting but not doing anything about it. This program excels in that respect because it not only monitors but it acts if something is wrong! (That is if you set it up properly) In terms of functionality it leaves other similar programs for dead, it really is a stunner in that respect. In terms of looks it is very bland and sometimes the layout feels a bit messy.

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• Seems accurate

  Steve The Wire PullerNovember 15, 2009

  Pros

  Seems accurate, good layout and gui, easy to find info. Seems to have the info you need to make an assement of a hard drive. Failry nag free -- has one link asking you to register. Paid versions have lots of extra features.

  Cons

  Perhaps too much info. The pay version has a clock sync for instance, but perhaps that is to ensure proper backups.

  Summary

  I've had this for 2 days and looked at 4 drives so far and it seems accurate -- one ready to fail, two healthy, one with a moved sector. Two of these were external drives. There are 4 versions free, standard, pro and enterprise. The price for standard or pro to auto backup might be justified. But if it's just to check a drive on the way out the free version would do. I don't know how well this compares with others as this is the first I tried.

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• Dangerous software?

  ronnewmanJune 9, 2009

  Pros

  It seems to have caused serious hard drive problems.

  Cons

  I suspect that the annoying screen pop-up saying 'Windows no disk' might be caused by HDsentinel in my computer. Also my hard drive was showing absolutely full when it couldn't have been. The problems disappeared when I removed HDsentinel. Suspect.

  Summary

  I'm very suspicious that it was this software which was causing my HD problem and 'Windows no disk' screen popup/

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• great program, easy to use, reliable

  fonokurFebruary 21, 2008

  Pros

  Cons

  no free version

  Summary

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