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Hard Disk Sentinel Standard Edition for PC FREE Today @ Bitsdujour (Usually $23)

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easternculture on 12/09/2013 - 19:45 bitsdujour.com (505 clicks)

Another software deal

It Monitors and can help you determine the health of your hard drive.

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From BitsDuJour:

Hard Disk Sentinel monitors and analyzes your hard disk, giving you feedback on drive health, any performance degradations, and warning of impending failure.

Features:

  • Monitor and analyze the performance and health of hard disks, SSDs, RAID arrays, and USB drives.
  • Guard against catastrophic loss of data by knowing when your hard drive is failing.
  • In an instant, know the temperature of your hard drive, disk transfer speed, and other important data.
  • Detect and repair issues before they get worse.
  • Choose from a wide variety of alerts and reports.

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  • jv on 12/09/2013 - 20:33

    Is this any good? Anybody tried it?

    • easternculture on 12/09/2013 - 20:40

      does what its supposed to do as described if that makes sense

  • atleeit on 12/09/2013 - 20:44

    yes it is good, probably one of the best smart monitoring software I do trust to test if a drive is degrading and failing.

    • jv on 12/09/2013 - 20:47

      can it be used for external drives?

      • King Tightarse on 12/09/2013 - 20:53
        +1

        Almost certainly just reads the smart data on the drive.
        Sure it will work on externals but if you want the "real" truth with the mysterio baloney removed, test the disks with the manufacturer's tools.
        Seatools for Seagate, Western Digital Diangnostics for WD. When in doubt Seatool is the default.

  • atleeit on 12/09/2013 - 20:51
    +2

    both internal and external yes, doesn't matter if it's usb or eSATA as long as software can read the smart status onboard.

  • bargaino on 12/09/2013 - 21:39

    This is a trivial function. Modern hard drives report their status.
    Doesn't your OS warn you if they are failing?

    • jv on 12/09/2013 - 21:48

      Doesn't your OS warn you if they are failing?

      Does it ?

      • King Tightarse on 12/09/2013 - 22:02

        Smart testing is highly "forgiving" and regularly passes HDs with many issues including dud sectors.
        By the time SMART puts its hand up the drive will most likely be completely pooped. Better to run the long test with manufacturer's tools once in awhile and find out the true status.
        Another good one is Crystal Disk Info - quick and easy.
        Two factors to keep an eye on in SMART data are the total number of power on hours (more than 25,000 is pushing it) and the Uncorrectable and Pending Sector counts. If they are high, that's bad.

    • scrimshaw on 12/09/2013 - 21:58

      This type of software is used to make future predictions about your hard drive by analyzing the SMART values.

      Windows doesn't do that, although it will give you some errors when it detects abnormal activity on your HDD, such errors can come a little too late..

  • spinferno on 13/09/2013 - 10:55

    direct link to the survey :)
    http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/bitsdujour/bitsdujour-softwa…

  • spendinghacker on 13/09/2013 - 15:20

    Please note that my security software (MS Windows Defender for WIN 8) has detected spyware bundled with this software installation.

    I am therefore revoking my vote. Sorry OP.

  • Sober Thoughts on 14/09/2013 - 18:53

    Thanks op…..saved my butt this weekend. This software confirmed my suspicion of a 1TB external in the early stages of failing. Got lucky this time. : ) Iobit detected no spyware for me……

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