Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 6.30 (24/3/2025)
Improvements and new features:
- detection of Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM log) for both SATA and SAS Seagate drives (if supported by the drive)
to Disk menu -> Device Specific Information (PRO version)
more details: https://www.hdsentinel.com/seagate-hard-disk-farm-log.php - detection and verification of power on time value by the Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM log) for both SAS and SATA Seagate hard disk drives (if the hard disk drive supports FARM log feature)
- showing Master Password ID value for drives supporting ATA security mode
- added support of Silicon Power MS60 pendrive: detect status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information
- added support of I-tec CAMYSAFEDUALM2: detect both drives: health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
- added support of Teramaster D5-300: detect all drives: health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status in RAID configuration
- added status detection of Sandisk Desk SSD, Seagate Game Drive, MIXZA SSDs
- added support of Rocstor Rocpro U35: detect all drives and their health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status
- added support of SK HYNIX T31 STICK pendrive: detect temperature, health, wearout and lifetime status, S.M.A.R.T. information
- added support of various SSK combo USB-NVMe / USB-SATA adapters
- detection and reporting of additional fake / invalid / useless external SSDs, pendrives
Improved hardware support:
- improved status reporting of Icy Box IB-RD3640SU3 multi-drive enclosure
- improved compatibility with various memory card readers, USB devices
- improved compatibility with Realtek RTL9220 (20G) USB-NVMe / USB-SATA adapters
- improved status reporting of ADATA SATA SSDs, Kingspec SSDs, Addlink SATA SSDs, various SATA SSDs
- improved support of CF express card readers
- improved detection and reporting of U.2 NVMe SSDs with Broadcom 94xx / 95xx tri-mode HBA controllers
- support of ICY DOCK M.2 PCIe 3.0/4.0 NVMe SSD to 2.5" U.2 SSD converter MB705M2P-B
- improved support Orico M2PJM-C3 NVMe / SATA M.2 USB adapter
- improved support of UGREEN CM335 dual RAID enclosure, OWC External RAID Elite: detect both drives and their health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status
- improved compatibility with Solidigm NVMe controller driver
- improved compatibility with RODE Wireless Pro microphone
- improved detection with some LSI / Avago / Broadcom SATA/SAS/NVMe tri-mode RAID controllers
- support of JMicron JMS586R USB-NVMe RAID controller: detect and report 2nd NVMe SSD status configured in PM/RAID0/RAID1/LARGE mode
(requires proper firmware version of the RAID controller chip from the manufacturer) - improved support of various external USB-NVMe adapters with JMicron JMS583 chipsets
- improved support of Phison PU31
- improved reporting of lifetime writes on various SSDs (Verbatim, Sandisk, Lite-On, Hikvision)
- improved support and Health display on Swissbit mSATA / M.2 / SATA industrial SSDs, Corsair SSDs, Apple SSDs, Sandisk SSDs, Patriot, Intel SSDs, Micron SSDs, ADATA SSDs)
- improved support of Lenovo / DELL OEM SSDs, some Kingston SSDs
- improved support / reporting of IBM-E050 ST6000NM0014 and some other SAS drives
- improved support of several 4/5 bay hard disk enclosures in non-RAID (standalone/port multiplier) mode
- added support of Yottamaster 4 and 5 bay RAID enclosures: detect status of RAID array members
- improved support and health reporting of Sandisk X600, X400, U100 series SSDs
- improved support and health reporting of WD Blue SA510 series SSDs
- improved support and health reporting of Goodram CX400 G2 SSDs, Lite-on SSDs, ADATA SU630, some Seagate SSDs
- improved detection of disk drives in Lacie V2 RAID enclosure
- improved detection of disk drives in Yottamaster 4 bay hard disk enclosure
- improved detection of disk drives in QNAP TR-002 RAID enclosure
- fixed AMD RAID detection when a drive missing / removed
- minor changes for various RAID controllers / RAID configurations
- improved power on time reporting on drives over 15 years runtime
- improved compatibility and status/health detection with various CF-Express Type-B card readers and memory cards
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- improved compatibility with multiple Google drives
- minor changes, modifications, optimizations
