Hard Disk Monitoring

I've been using HDS Pro for a few years now and really like it. I recently added a disk from another computer to my main storage machine and HDS Pro is only reporting a health rating of 68% on that disk due to a Reallocation Event Count of 8. I understand the implications of using a disk with degraded health, but I would still like to use this drive for some non-critical functions.

So here's my question: I want to keep my health alert threshold for the entire system at 90% so that HDS alerts me quickly if there is a problem with my important storage drives, but doing so generates constant alerts for the degraded disk I just added. Short of excluding the new disk from monitoring altogether, is there any way to set a health alert threshold of 50% for just that disk so I can be alerted when it gets worse without having to lower the global threshold for the rest of my disks?

Thanks!

Yes of course: in the latest versions (4.70 and newer) it is possible: just double click on the Health bar in the main window (when the appropriate hard disk selected) and then you can configure different health thresholds for that particular hard disk drive.

This is described in the revision history of the new version:

"double click on the Health bar to configure custom health threshold for any hard disk / SSD (registered version only) "

( http://www.hdsentinel.com/revision.php )


Alternatively, you may clear the reallocation event counter in Hard Disk Sentinel to acknowledge problems, restore the health status and be notified about possible new problems.
For this, just select the S.M.A.R.T. page and click on the "Offset" column of the Reallocation Event Count attribute. Specify -8 (the error count with negative sign) to acknowledge these problems (as yes, alone these are not critical) and be notified about possible new issues.
Personally I also recommend some testing ( http://www.hdsentinel.com/faq.php#tests ) just to reveal any (currently un-detected) problems with the hard disk - or to confirm that the hard disk is stable and it can be safely used.

Such situation (general error-detection, checking, testing, repairing and when status stable error clearing) described at
http://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_repair_ha ... _drive.php