Hard Disk Monitoring

For the future myself (just because I forgot where is this option once again :D ). The " Configuration->Alerts->When disk removed/disconnected " option in Hard Disk Sentinel 6.20 (Pro) is clickable. The dialog you get allows to specify the disks to trigger this alert. 2024-10-16 16_13_40-C...

Thanks for explaining the idea behind the Health arithmetic! As you may see with your other drive, The thing is, this is the same HDD (just one hour later). And the fact that the uncorrectable error happened that soon after I started to actually read something from the disk, contributes to the idea ...

I've noticed that Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.20b-x64.10851 shows misleading "Health: 100 % (Excellent)" estimate for a HDD that got multiple "grown defects", "reassigned blocks" and "recovered via rewrite in-place" blocks. I'd say those are are cle...

It turns out that what HDSentinel shows actually perfectly matches the printed label. Sorry for the delay with providing this photo.

Maybe it would be a good idea to add WWN of each disk to the (Hard Disk Sentinel 0.20b-x64) report. The motivation is that WWN should, in theory, be a stable, standard and unambiguous, easy to search for. Although serial numbers, at the first glance, should work even better for this, there could be ...

Thanks for your detailed reply! I hope I would be able to take a photo of this disk in about a week or so. I suspect that there indeed could be just "3PE07ZKX" printed on the label. Thus, maybe this short serial number is indeed more useful than those provided by the smartctl and storcli. ...

I'm really glad you liked the suggestion, thanks!
I've just sent you the reports.

I recently found myself running HDSentinel twice each time - for xml and html output. ./HDSentinel -xml -r report.xml ./HDSentinel -html -r report.html I need xml to parse it, as a periodic check. But I also do html because, if there's something wrong, it usually makes sense to look into it "ma...

HDSentinel shows an incorrect (just truncated?) serial number for some of my HDDs (Seagete ST8000NM0075). For example, for «/dev/sdbx» it shows « ZA1DT0PT » (in text output or in html or in xml), while all other tools show « ZA1DT0PT0000C911FE0V ». This, of course, could be a bit misleading (when yo...

Hi, I'm wondering how Hard Disk Sentinel checks the "TRIM feature status". If I'm correct, it checks two things: Whether OS recognizes SSD correctly (and, thus, sends TRIM commands) Whether SSD itself declares the support of TRIM and DRAT (via "word169->bit0", "word69->bit14...