Hard Disk Monitoring

Yes I would like to enter more information and this in a more structured form. Since the field is there already why not move it to a tab and make the entry field bigger? And the tab should show if there is anything entered so that I know it makes sense to look at comments at this disk. Lets say the ...

HD Sentinel 4.40 on Win 7 32 -> some hard disk icons are missing. It just shows the icons for the first RAID 0 array (Intel RAID). For the second RAID 0 array there is no icon. This I guess is a bug. Info: at Intel Matrix RAID you can create a maximum of two RAID 0 arrays. For the system they appear...

It would be great if in the disk overview where you have tabs for Overview, Temperature, ... there would be a tab where I could enter comments. If there are comments the tab should show a hint in form of a color or whatever so that the user can see at a glance that there is something written at this...

I will check the help file when I have the software installed again to get information about resuming the tests. But now I not that it should be possible. In respect of the cache it was not my idea that you write into a cache - of course this does not make sense at all. The idea was that you read a ...

Thank you for your response! Sorry - I looked in the help file and did not find anything about it. Will use this in HDS as soon as my system is repaired. Have to check the replacement disk anyway. Allow me one more question. Let's take an example. The surface read test takes for instance 3 hours. Th...

Disk capacities get bigger and bigger and so surface tests take longer and longer. It would be great if I could stop such a test and resume it at the stopped position at a later time. HDS should keep this position and ask me at a new scan if I want to start from there. Even more perfect would be if ...

Thank you very much for your response. I was not brave enough to write about my whole dream. But I just want to tell you about it. It might be bigger coding effort but perhaps it might be possible one day. It would be great if an Expert User (and only this) could set a trigger value. If the attribut...

Just want to add something to the Ultra ATA CRC Error Count problem. I just tested at a PC of a friend of mine - he has HDS running. It seems to be like this: There are attributes like Reallocated Sectors Count or Current Pending Sectors Count. If you set there an offset of 1 so that the data value ...

I can make sure that the newest version 4.40 saves log entries (and alerts) upon Ultra ATA CRC Error count. I cannot change it. I have the latest version 4.40 and here a change in this attribute did not alert or create any log entries at any disk model I have. And I tried very hard because this att...

Generally, the data transfer / communication errors reported by Hard Disk Sentinel. These are usually related to other attributes (for example but not limited to the 199 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count). They appear on the "'Log" page of the hard disk and of course it is possible to configure a...

:o I'm a bit shocked that RAID 0 is used for storing important data .... What is the problem with it. If you have 1 disk or a RAID 0 array in any case you need a good backup. There is no difference. Don't tell me now that it is more likely that disks may fail. That is correct but that does not mean...

Yes - older version did not warn for that specific attribute on that specific hard disk model. HDS still cares only about the values with the green circle on the left side. There is no change in the latest version 4.40. At least this was my test result. Thanks for the attachments - but the Report -...

In decimal format, the values may be sometimes confusing, as some S.M.A.R.T. attributes have different meanings in their high / middle / low word. While in original, hexadecimal format, the displayed FFFFFFFF value may immediately give some information immediately, the decimal 4294967295 value (or ...

Since I deleted so many data based on the HDS messages yesterday already I will destroy the RAID 0 array and take out the problem disk. But before I had a further closer look at HDS. Months ago I had a command timeout of 65537 - combined with other data transfer errors. Reason was an oxidized data c...

It is me again - sorry. I have a problematic HD reallocating sectors. The counter just moved from 40 to 49. To set the data value to 0 again I entered an offset of -49. The next thing I got (almost immediately) was a reallocated sector count of 4294967295 (see attachment) I just did a panic backup a...

Thank you very much for your support. Perhaps a note in the help file about "Change folder to store statistics and settings" would be helpful for other users. It might not be so clear that the values are stored not in the registry anymore if you use this setting. And it is a great option t...

I have a disk that reallocates more and more sectors. It is nice that I get a warning that it reallocated a new sector (the warning is nice ;) ). But then I set to offset so that the value is 0 again because I want to get a warning only when it worsens. Some disks might never reallocate sectors agai...

I just want to add something to my posting from before. I did a trace and found the reg.dat. There I found the values that - so I guess - would be in the registry if I did not switch the storage location to the program folder. Then I could not resist :roll: to delete the first entry at the problem d...

Thank you for your response. So if you see the value (which should constantly increase) moving up/down, yes, it confirms that the clock of your system was not set properly. This is impossible. There is so much software running depending on the date. I would realize this immediately after the system ...

Five disks have the same problem. I do not know when and why this happened. The disks have been running that long and almost every day. Three of them have been running in RAID 0. I looked at the data files. But they are not editable at least by me - why so complicated? I guess the easiest way now is...