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*** Daves Computer Tips Exclusive ***
[important]HDSentinel has very kindly donated 20 ‘lifetime’ licenses for their excellent Hard Disk Sentinel Professional software for us to share with the DCT readers! This software normally sells for $35.00(US) but you now have a chance to win a free license simply by submitting a reply to this article! Contest rules available at the bottom of this post.[/important]
To enter for your chance to win a FREE license for Hard Disk Sentinel Pro simply submit a reply to this article with a comment. Replies can be anything, but we would prefer if you commented on Hard Disk Sentinel or previous drive experiences. Competition ends 00:01 (EST) July 5th, 2012. *If your comment doesn’t appear immediately it is because first comments must be approved. It will appear shortly!
It is definitely not compulsory, but it would be greatly appreciated if any Facebook account holders could visit the HD Sentinel Facebook Page and click on the “Like” button… thank you.
Every storage device has a finite lifespan – unfortunately – and the common hard drive and SSD are no exception to this rule. Fortunately for us both devices can be monitored for signs of failure using S.M.A.R.T. (Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) and everyone should have a tool to do so in their virtual tech toolbox. Hard Disk Sentinel is one of those tools.
HDSentinel’s software monitors the S.M.A.R.T. data, temperature, and performance of your drives and presents it in an easy to understand manor visually, or by email. Hard Disk Sentinel Professional also allows the user to run seek, surface, and extended tests on drives and, should conditions indicate a failing drive , perform an emergency backup of critical files! You can use Hard Drive Sentinel to find out the present condition of a drive in real time, or to monitor drive(s) over time which allows you to see drive conditions trends before a failure causes loss of data.
Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the hard disks and solid state disks inside the computer and in external enclosures.
Hard Disk Sentinel Professional
When you open Hard Disk Sentinel Professional you will see the main window, which will present an overview of all the drives installed on your computer along with temperature and health ratings from drives which provide that information. .
Clicking the Temperature tab will show temperature details for whichever drive you select in the left column. You can also set thresholds from here that will trigger notifications or perform other actions chosen by you.
The following tab shows the raw S.M.A.R.T. data from the drive selected in the left column and allows you to ignore or adjust how the program uses the data.
The information tab shows detailed information about the selected drive including controller, model, size, and much more!
The Logs tab shows any problems logged since the program was installed. Luckily everything looks good on my computer!
The Disk Performance tab allows you to see Read and Write performance of the selected drive.
Finally the Alerts tab shows any alerts for the selected drive the program has read that could be cause for alarm.
This is just a small sample of Hard Disk Sentinel’s features. In addition to the above it can conduct thorough self testing of drives, surface tests, seek time tests, emergency backup of critical files, and much much more! Hard Disk Sentinel Professional is suitable for both the common home user and serious computer tech. Easy to use. Easy to understand. What more can you ask of a tool that everyone should have in the tech toolbox?
To enter for your chance to win a FREE license for Hard Disk Sentinel simply submit a reply to this article with a comment. Replies can be anything, but we would prefer if you commented on Hard Disk Sentinel or previous drive experiences. Competition ends 00:01 (EST) July 5th, 2012. *If your comment doesn’t appear immediately it is because first comments must be approved. It will appear shortly!
COMPETITION RULES:
- Post one reply to this article. We would prefer if you commented on Hard Disk Sentinel or told us a little about yourself.
- Comments must be posted before 00:01(EST) on July 5th, 2012. Any replies after the cut off will be deleted and will not count.
- Post only one comment! Users who abuse this rule may have all replies deleted and be banned from the contest.
- On July 6th, 20 replies will be chosen by random number generator as winners of 1 FREE license each.
- Winners will be notified by email at the email address they used to comment – be sure to use a valid email that you check regularly.
- Winners must claim their license within 14 days of receiving official notification. Unclaimed licenses after that time will be re-drawn.
**NOTE: The licenses are ‘lifetime’ – which means they support all future upgrades, also for free.
Great software, even better if I win a Free copy
Please count me in. I have used the free version. Very good Program
I would love to try this on my NAS drive, it seems to be over heating which concerns me. Hard drives contain data that we deem worth keeping, we should protect rem with due diligence.
Hey,
What can I say?
Its just a simple and very useful program. Every time, when I reinstall any OS, this prog is one of the firsts, what I take on.
Thanks for the development and for this promotion, hope the best!
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Hard Disk Sentinel is an excellent program that provides a wealth of information. There are other utilities that report similar information but they are not as complete as HDS. If you do not use it, you should.
I’m using the free version and like the detailed information on my drives.
Count me in giveaway.
Thanks :D!
thanx for the opportunity, count me in.
Hard Disk Sentinel is just the utility I’ve been wanting for a long time. Hard drive failure is one of those things that you just don’t ever want to deal with but it’s a fact of life. Hard drives fail – and usually at the worst possible time. But they usually don’t fail “all of a sudden” – there are warning signs if you can find them. HDS does a great job of getting and interpreting data from your drives. There are plenty of utilities that show SMART data, but good luck interpreting it. Great utility which excels at what it does!
Thanks Dave for one more chance to win a license key. Good luck for all.
We use rather basic SMART checks from time to time, but are beginning to use SSD alone or together with hard disks. I am not sure that this software will be able to tell much about the SSDs, but I’m eager to find out.
I am using the Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Edition is a very good and useful program. Please a professional license code
A very fine program that gives a nice peace of mind.
i always knew that HDS is a useful and smart utility and I follow with interest the continuous progress of the new version.
regards
Using the standard edition. I have it setup to run all the time. Provides a robust set of monitoring tools with low overhead.
I have loads of Movies and Music on my hard drives. Would be great to have this software to help me know when my drives are vulnerable.
James
Very informative program to know everything about your harddrive.
Would love! Thanks for the opportunity!
Please count me in
Thanks
I recently installed the standard version and it immediately identified two of my portable hard drives were at the critical stage. Fortunately I was able to back up the data and saved myself a whole lot of grief. The pro version would be that much better,
Hard Disk Sentinel is good, and probably the best program to serve the HDD of those that I know. The program covers almost all of the requirements and suggestions for programs of this type. Thanks for giveaway, please count me in.
Best regards!
Nice to have an extra option to have it autostart or not.
I already have Standart Edition and it’s very usefull. I’ll be happy to win a free license so I can see the all functionality of this wonderfull aplikation.
Love how HDS gives me detailed information on whats going on with my harddrive.I can get all that I need in just a few clicks.Definately a good tool to have.
Hi, HD Sentinel is a excellent diagnostic apps. I been using the standard edition to monitor my hard drives and to also help repair faulty ones. There are many great features HD Sentinel provides and I would recommend people should start using it. Please count me, I would love to win a pro license
Thanks