Hard Disk Monitoring

I tried again, disabling the Lock Drive option and received similar results (new screenshot attached). The driver used by the RAID card is version 4.32.0.32 of megasas.sys, dated 17/9/2010 - not a spring chicken but the latest version I could find with WinXP support. In terms of controller SSD suppo...

I tried running HDSentinel's Disk Surface (Read) test on a Samsung 470 series SSD which was part of a RAID-0 array controlled by an LSI (now Avago/Broadcom) MegaRAID 9260-8i. The read tests failed (even when Windows was started from a separate hard disk) and MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) reported t...

Quick update - repeated the read test while running from my backup partition (so nothing was using the disks under test) and encountered the same problem (failed tests and the drive taken offline from the RAID array). Since this issue now seems different from the original problem, I'll be creating a...

Maybe you can try a Disk menu -> Surface test -> Read test. This will probably show a warning that the drive can't be locked for exclusive use (which is normal, because of the running OS and apps) but you can still continue to proceed. This will test the data area of both drives (as they are in RAI...

I've encountered a similar issue with simple/extended tests on 5 x Samsung 470 SSDs (which are part of a RAID-0 array), though in this case it was a read element that failed. 2 x Corsair C300 SSDs (in the same array) manage to complete simple/extended tests without any problem. Any reason to be conc...

Just like to offer an update on this - I purchased a Family Licence and received the 15-digit serial number straight away. I then installed HDSentinel on the laptop being used for this post, entered the serial and then chose the activate by email option. I received a response (with the HDSentinel.hd...

You can ANY TIME re-install HDSentinel on a new system without my intervention. You only need to register/activate the software only once (by online or by e-mail) and then you can backup the configuration. Then you can ANY TIME re-install the software ( even on a new, different system ) and restore...

Thanks for your response. No, I can confirm that online activation is NOT strictly required: it is possible to register/activate Hard Disk Sentinel without online connection. This way it is possible to install/use even on systems which are always offline / has no connection at all. For this, you can...

Having trialed this program, I was looking forward to purchasing a Family Licence but while doing a check on the terms and conditions, I found that online activation would be required. For me this is a deal-breaker. Any form of online activation means that the software will become unusable at some p...