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(FREE) Hard Disk Sentinel v4.71 for PC

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(FREE) Hard Disk Sentinel v4.71 for PC
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Ldoor999mo on 17/04/2016 - 00:03 sharewareonsale.com (2778 clicks)

They had the same deal before for 4.50 (see: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/211693)

Time to upgrade yours to 4.71 for free :)

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional is a hard drive and SSD health, temperature and performance monitoring program. Hard Disk Sentinel Professional has integrated backup and disk repairing functions and is designed to monitor hard drive and SSD health, predict hard drive and SSD failure, fix hard drive and SSD problems, improve hard drive and SSD performance degradations, and prevent data loss.

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  • ilikeit on 17/04/2016 - 00:06
    +7

    Just use any email, it will still give you the DL link.

  • maybe a bot on 17/04/2016 - 00:36

    what does this do that CrystalDiskInfo and CHKDSK doesn't?

      • maybe a bot on 17/04/2016 - 01:33
        +3

        thanks for the useful comment..

        all I know is they're flaunting SMART checking and repair, which CDI and many other programs do. I was trying to see from owners of this software what it does different from what I use to maintain my hdds.

        • [Deactivated] on 17/04/2016 - 07:56
          +5

          what does CrystalDiskInfo and CHKDSK do?

    • Xebozone on 17/04/2016 - 04:30
      +1

      I used to use the DOS version of this program, which was very handy and gave a simple output of "Drive health : 90% (or whatever) with a number of bad and weak sectors".
      I too would like to know what advantages this has over CHKDSK and CDI now

      • TilacVIP on 17/04/2016 - 07:09

        Lot more technical in-depth information that Crystal disk does not give.

        For the average user, possibly not much diff.

        I use both.

        • stonkered on 17/04/2016 - 07:14
          +1

          What else does it give you on top of smart attributes and sector information?

          Also, it says you can access drive info from Windows explorer, do you know what is accessible? Can you get smart info that way? That would be nice.

  • tonyjzx on 17/04/2016 - 01:01

    looks like it spits out more useless info that crystal

  • [Deactivated] on 17/04/2016 - 01:25
    +2

    The download is an exclusive SharewareOnSale installer with registration built-in. Download and install Hard Disk Sentinel and start using it. There is no need to register it — we register it automatically for you when you download from us. Enjoy!

    It sounds like a virus and/or a cracked version of it. How do we know this is legit?

    • ilikeit on 17/04/2016 - 02:37
      +4

      It's legit. It's for promo in the hope you may pay for a future release or upgrade. This software won't update - that really bothers some, so they buy it.

      • [Deactivated] on 17/04/2016 - 10:23

        But what's the actually source linking them back to the company? This site isn't even the same as their official website when you go to the products main website to buy it.

  • shap08 on 17/04/2016 - 06:19
    +2

    Here is a direct link, I used a throw away email. https://sharewareonsale.com/?download_file=72594&order=wc_or…

    • attfiecz2 on 17/04/2016 - 07:23

      Ozbargained link

    • niters on 17/04/2016 - 07:30

      "Sorry, you have reached your download limit for this file"

  • nige0090 on 17/04/2016 - 08:57
    +2

    The previous offer was for v4.50 PRO. This offer does not mention PRO or standard, but the crossed out price of $19.50 would suggest that it is standard.

    • sengork on 17/04/2016 - 10:57
      +2

      Here's the differences: http://www.hdsentinel.com/store.php

    • Daniel15 on 18/04/2016 - 14:21

      Yeah, it's the standard version. It shows an upsell for pro after downloading:

      SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU

      Want more features, such as a portable version and automatic data backup? Then get Hard Disk Sentinel Professional with free lifetime upgrades and enjoy more features, free updates, free tech support, and commercial or noncommercial use. Get it now!

  • dreamscene on 17/04/2016 - 10:07
    +2

    Is defrag even a thing nowadays?

    • maybe a bot on 17/04/2016 - 10:56
      +3

      yes, but don't do it to an ssd, it causes more damage than its worth

      this is a smart reporting tool - it reads your hard drive's smart data and deduces what can be done for it by the smart data.

      • Tuttorix on 17/04/2016 - 13:26

        Serious question, what are the damages it can cause on an SSD and please cite source? Thanks.

        • endotherm on 17/04/2016 - 14:28
          +1

          Mechanical drives require periodic defragmentation to eliminate or reduce delays seeking for the files it requires, which creates wear and slows response times. SSD's don't have this delay, any file can be accessed just as quickly as any other. It does do wear-leveling and internally shuffles files around so that certain areas of the drive are not overused more than others, in an effort to avoid failures. While it is unnecessary to defrag, I don't think it causes damage, I too would like to know what the damage may be. Aside from increasing risk of rearranging file layout so that areas are again exposed to overuse, I don't know how that could damage it.

        • sp3ctr41 on 17/04/2016 - 14:44
          +2

          @endotherm:

          Very simply put, SSDs store data by placing an electron in a cell, this is called electron tunneling and eventually wears out the physical structure of NAND causing it to fail. By extension, defragmenting your SSD means your unnecessarily rewriting that data in different places, hence, causing wear.

          The good news is, an experiment conducted found that SSDs only fail to this 'wear and tear' after several hundred terabytes of data is written, making a single defragmentation cycle insignificant in the long run.

    • Xizor on 17/04/2016 - 10:56

      Not for SSD but otherwise yeah…. maybe you should run it..

    • Agret on 17/04/2016 - 20:46

      Yes if you have any mechanical hard drives. For SSDs the equivalent is called TRIM and should be automatically handled by your OS.

  • cheesecactus on 17/04/2016 - 11:28

    Great software, use it to monitor the health of my drives. Best software I could find for the job

  • gromit on 17/04/2016 - 12:33
    -1

    I am surprised apps like these are still around, they really offer the average user zero benefits over even whats built into most OS's nowadays.

    • Agret on 17/04/2016 - 20:47

      I use it all the time at work the health bar is a great way to quickly check out the state of a customer hard drive.

    • syousef on 17/04/2016 - 22:11
      -1

      Have you used this util? It's VERY useful compared to the limited information on offer from the OS. I've been monitoring a drive with data that isn't that important on it for the last 10 months or so waiting for it to start showing bad sectors. This reminded me to take another look. I was actually watching the drive die as I backed it up today. No data lost, but the drive is running out of spare sectors so today was a good day to move all the data across.

  • Winman on 17/04/2016 - 13:20

    here is the download link:
    https://sharewareonsale.com/?download_file=72594&order=wc_or…

  • NBAD25 on 17/04/2016 - 14:52
    +1

    My favourite HDD crashed last night, why did you take so long to post OP, why oh why?!

    RIP Porn drive.

    • Baebs on 17/04/2016 - 15:25
      +5

      Moment of silence for NBAD's favourite HDD.

    • akoli on 17/04/2016 - 16:08
      +1

      Love that when you get no warning and it just dies, had it happen a couple of times… SMART system has been of no help thus far…. Lucky Im not too slack with backups.

    • buckster on 17/04/2016 - 18:15
      +2

      At least now you can build up a fresh collection? More exciting that way

  • gmatht on 17/04/2016 - 21:15
    +1

    Hmm, out of 56 Virus Scanners, one ("Rising") thought that it contained malware called "PE:Malware.Generic/QRS!1.9E2D [F]". Probably a false positive I suppose: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8058c56b2ab9a7bf46208d836…

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