Hard Disk Sentinel solves this problem with two displays in the left-hand navigation pane one displays each actual, separate disk drive with its health status and temperature, and the other displays disk partitions, their capacities, and free space. One of the biggest complaints we've had about disk utilities is the way they tend to offer all-or-nothing display options you can view data for each physical disk or each partition, but not both. Hard Disk Sentinel's compact interface is a busy affair, packed tight with colorful status and temperature displays, but in fact it's quite efficiently configured, once the eyes sort it all out. With a number of monitoring and reporting options, it can alert you to trouble with your critical storage components before failure becomes an option. Developers have stepped into the breach with tools such as Hard Disk Sentinel, a free utility for monitoring and analyzing the performance of terabyte-capacity hard-disk drives (HDDs) as well as the latest and fastest solid-state drives (SSDs). The tests are thorough and the amount of data provided is impressive.Windows' built-in system tools are geared toward casual users and often lack the power or features needed to keep up with the latest hardware. Verdict:Ī comprehensive informational and diagnostic tool for hard drives. You can perform a variety of tests such as surface tests to check the integrity of your disks so you can pre-empt any problems that may arise. Warnings will be displayed if your drive's temperature becomes too high or the overall health level starts to suffer. The program can also provide you with all manner of detailed specifications about your drives including spin up times and Seek Error Rate. Hard Disk Sentinel will monitor the temperature and health of your drives, making use of SMART information to provide detailed feedback about what is going on with your disks. Whether you have a single hard drives installed, a number of internal drives or a combination of internal and external drives, the program can keep you informed about the state of all of them. This is what Hard Disk Sentinel enables you to do, proving reports, statistics and tips about your drives. As such, it is good idea to do what you can to keep an eye on it to help ensure that nothing is going to go wrong. It is in constant use whenever the machine is running and it is home to not only Windows, but also all of your important files.

Your computer hard disk is one of its most important components.

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