Hard Disk Monitoring

performance counters are ok.. from second look it seems like registry accessing problems of some kind, portable version works just fine, if i'll be able to localize the issue i'll get back but so far portable will do for me

well hdd's are asleep (and obviously there's no data being transferred) and with an option set sentinel still wakes them up.. tried on internal 300 series controller with std ahci and rst drivers - it's all same-same...
..so sentinel somehow detects activity even when there's no activity at all

so, sentinel worked ok on my old asrock z370 pro4 board, i just switched over to gigabyte z370 hd3p, and boom.. now sentinel wakes drives again despite the option being set :) ..i'll try with a fresh install of 2019 ltsc but the fact that it got broke just with a switch of mobos with same chipset is...

If I remember right, sil3132 didn't works well with windows 10 and windows 2012. ;) I had tons of problem with it when I had thise OS installed. :cry: Details> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/aebc24a0-5b3a-4cd8-b054-19e909a91104/pci-express-sata-controller-sil-3132-doesnt-work-wit...

Hello, long story short: when disks are asleep, sentinel wakes them during regular status check at the same time, polling disks with smartctl.exe -i -n sleep /dev/sdX detect their sleep state without waking them. so it would be super great to somehow make your program to query disks as delicate as s...