Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.70 (19/1/2021)
Improvements and new features:
- added option: Include problem overview in alerts (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only)
- added option: Alert about problematic drive(s) only (Configuration -> Message Settings, Pro version only)
- added links to text descriptions: show links with underline and option to click on them to open in browser automatically
- added support of DELL PERC Software RAID controllers: DELL PERC S100/S300, DELL PERC S110, DELL PERC S130, DELL PERC S140: detect all connected hard disks/SSDs and their health, temperature and status information (configured as RAID or standalone)
- added support of Broadcom 9500 series Tri-mode SAS / SATA / NVMe RAID controllers: detect SATA / SAS / NVMe RAID array members, display complete self-monitoring S.M.A.R.T. status of drives managed by Broadcom 95xx RAID controller, configured as RAID
- added support of WD BLACK AN1500 NVMe SSD: display real health, wearout, lifetime writes, S.M.A.R.T. status of SSDs
- added support of HighPoint 7505 NVMe RAID controller: detect the status information of NVMe SSDs used in standalone and RAID mode
- added support of ROG RAIDR Express PCIe: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information
- added support of ORICO 3559U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure
- added support of Yottamaster 4-bay and FS5U3 5-bay external USB 3.0 hard disk enclosure
- added support of KIOXIA EXCERIA SATA / NVMe SSDs
- added health display for LITEON ECE Dell-specific SSDs
- added support of Sabrent Rocket 4.0 2TB NVMe SSD
- added support of Crucial CT500P1SSD8 / CT1000P1SSD8, Micron 9300 Max (Micron NVMe driver)
- added support of ATP AF8GUD3-WAAXX, AF16GUD3-WAAXX, AF32GUD3-WAAXX industrial SD cards
- added support of ADATA SE760 external SSD
- added support of RaidSonic Icy Box IB-1817M-C31, RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-1824ML-C31 NVMe-USB adapter
- detect up to 240 hard disk drives/SSDs
- added support of updated Realtek USB-NVMe firmware
- added support of OWC Aura SSD: detect complete status, health, S.M.A.R.T. information
- added support of AXE Memory external SSD
- added support of Bulldozer, AFOX SSDs
Improved hardware support:
- improvements, detection fixes for latest Windows Insider Preview builds
- improved compatibility with Intel Optane configurations
- improved support of Samsung 980 PRO series SSDs
- improved display of lifetime writes with HP RAID configuration
- improved health/status display of ADATA SX8100, XPG Spectrix S40 NVMe SSDs
- improved detection with LSI / Avago / Broadcom / DELL / IBM / Intel SAS RAID controllers
- improved health reporting with Patriot Burst, Silicon Power SSDs
- improved power on time reporting for Toshiba MK2565GSX
- improved compatibility with various ADATA SSDs (650/750/760/800 series)
- improved compatibility with Intel VROC and Micron 2300 NVMe SSDs
- improved detection and status / power on time reporting of WD SAS hard disks
- improved health display and reporting for WD Green / WD Blue series SSDs
- improved support of LSI MegaRAID 9460 tri-mode (NVMe/SAS/SATA) RAID controller
- minor corrections for SK Hynix, Sandisk SSDs, Silicon Power SSDs, XPG SPECTRIX S40, Patriot P210
- improved support of Startech S352BU33RER, ORICO 9548RU3, CFI-B8283ERGG external multi-drive / RAID enclosures
- improved detection and reporting of different Kingspec SSDs, INTEL SSDSC2BF180A5L, Micron 550 SSD
- improved detection and reporting of White Label WL500 hard disks
- improved detection of RAID 10 arrays on Intel RAID controllers
- improved detection of SATA hard disks / SSDs with AMD Bottom RAID controller driver 9.3
- improved detection of SATA hard disks / SSDs with AMD StoreMI 2.0 driver 9.4
- improved detection with AMD RAID controller (scsiport) driver under Windows XP
- improved detection of MaxDigital hard disk drives
- improved power on time display of Hitachi SAS hard disks (HUH721010AL5200)
- improved hard disk status, health, temperature detection with MD4000GBDS hard disks
- improved support of Swissbit industrial M.2 SATA SSD
- improved support of Lenovo WD4001FYYG SAS hard disk
- improved health calculation for NVMe SSDs
- improved and extended detection of Intel VROC SSDs in NVMe SSD RAID configurations with higher number of SSDs
- improved detection of HP Smart Array RAID controllers when multiple arrays configured on same physical disk drives
- improved compatibility with HFS1T9G32FEH SSD, SSDPR-CX400-256 SSD, Silicon Power SSD, Toshiba SSDs
- improved support and lifetime writes display of several LITEON SSDs
- improved compatibility and detection performance with LSI SAS3 HBA
- improved support of 4Kn SATA hard disk drives, showing "4Kn" on the Information page
- display warning upon possible compatibility issue if 4Kn drive used on older system
- improved compatibility with Intel SSDSCKKB240G8R, Intel SSDSC2KB019T7R, THNSF81D92CSE
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- complete German Help available - thanks to Kurt Lettmaier for his work
- fixed: "Unknown" drive may be displayed previously when AMD RAID used
- minor changes, compatibility improvements
- improved progress display during disk surface test
- improved disk activity tray icons: showing logical disk drives too
- improved, fixed save dialogs (Report menu -> Save HTML report, Save TXT report, save temperature statistic images)
- improved Disk Contents Inspector
- MSFT XVDD devices no longer displayed
- improved menu display in high-contrast setting
