Hard Disk Monitoring

Hi!

First of all, sorry for poor English.

I want to ask - can I setup HDSentinel, so it send me email notification about specific attribute change? (ideal - if I can choose what attributes)

For example - it useful to receive notification about change of 199 - UltraATA CRC Error count - so, I know what I should look at SATA cable. And in case of email notification this can be automatic and don't need me to monitor it in HDSentinel window.

Also, this can be useful for some other attributes too. I imagine this as - I select attributes and if attribute changed - HDSentinel send me brief email message about it change.

Is it possible in current version? If not, can you add it to wishlist?

Hi !

I can confirm this option is already available, exactly to alert upon problems and without the need to constantly check the software.

Not only for this attribute but also for other most important attributes which show problems, new issues, including but not limited to bad sectors, weak sectors, spin up problems, data communication problems and so.

Please note that the Log page contains such problems and on the bottom of that page, Hard Disk Sentinel also mentions that it is possible to configure the software to automatically send notification (or even perform other action, like execute external application, make sound alert, shut down system etc...) when this happens.

For this, please open Configuration -> Alerts and there you will see the option to issue alert "When a new log entry is added" (so when a such problem added to the above mentioned Log page of the hard disk). You can configure which action(s) should be performed, for example send/display message: and on the Configuration -> Message Settings page, you can configure if you prefer to have e-mail notification and so (the e-mail settings can be configured at Configuration -> E-mail Configuration page where it is possible to test the settings too).

It may be good idea to configure other alerts too, for example alert when the disk health is low (below 50% and/or 25%) or when immediate failure predicted (when the health is 0%).

Thank you for quick answer!

Yes, I already configure such alerts. Can I ask more detailed, what attributes/events include (influence) in log entry?
I mean, where I can read list of events what cause new entry in log?

Generally attributes are affected, so their change logged (and then alert issued) if they affect health and may indicate problems.

This depends on the actual hard disk (or SSD) model and even firmware version as sometimes different attributes may be used differently, but in most common situations, the following attributes, their change logged:

5 Reallocated Sectors Count
10 Spin Retry Count
184 End-to-end Error Count
187 Uncorrectable Error Count
196 Reallocation Event Count
197 Current Pending Sector Count
198 Off-line Uncorrectable Sector Count
199 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count

This depends on the actual disk drive - so there may be other special attributes too.

Thank you for answer!