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Why Check Your Hard Drive’s Health?
- You bought a used product but don’t know how to check an old hard drive, and want to know whether it has bad sectors and whether it’s still in good condition?
- You bought a brand-new product but don’t know whether the seller is honest? Although you can check the manufacturing date on the drive’s external label, it’s hard to tell whether it has actually been used. In this case, open Hardisk Sentinel Pro and look at the number of days used and the number of power on/off cycles. If the hard drive is truly new, these values will only be a few.
- Or you simply want to check the condition of the hard drive in the computer you’re using!
- Helps you check your hard drive effectively.
- View detailed hard drive information and data transfer speed
- Monitor the hard drive’s health: temperature, usage time…
- Offers processing options to find and fix bad sectors and protect the hard drive, and quickly detects abnormal hard drive problems.
- Shows the test process clearly so you can follow it easily. Shows detailed S.M.A.R.T information
Download Hard Disk Sentinel (trial / buy a license) from the official site: hdsentinel.com
I. How to Use Hard Disk Sentinel
Hard Disk Sentinel’s Main Interface
- Overview: An overview of the hard drive’s performance. Pay attention to information such as: Performance, Health, Power on time (how long the hard drive has been used), Estimated remaining lifetime… along with advice in a red frame to make it stand out.
- Temperature: Monitors hard drive temperature and also provides additional information about the average temperature (Average Temperature), the maximum measured temperature (Maximum Temperature), a temperature chart..
- S.M.A.R.T and Information: Shows detailed and complete parameters of the hard drive and the S.M.A.R.T technology it uses.
- Log: A log of the hard drive’s activity.
- Alerts: Shows warnings about risks the hard drive may face.
- Disk Performance: Provides information about read/write and data transfer speeds, the hard drive’s current workload…
Important information
- Performance: The hard drive’s current performance (the higher the better).
- Health: The hard drive’s current health status
- Power on time: The hard drive’s operating time
- Estimated remaining lifetime: The estimated remaining lifetime of the hard drive.
- Total start/stop count: The number of times the hard drive has been powered off/on
Check Hard Drive Temperature with Hard Disk Sentinel
- Current Temperature: The hard drive’s current temperature.
- Average Temperature: The average temperature during the day.
- Maximum Temperature: The highest temperature during the day
You can also view the temperature here
S.M.A.R.T Information in Hard Disk Sentinel
S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a technology that automatically monitors, diagnoses and reports possible failures of a hard drive, so that through the BIOS, software can notify the user of the failure in advance and they can take preparatory action (such as backing up data or planning to replace the hard drive with a new one).
S.M.A.R.T parameters S.M.A.R.T shown in green mean the hard drive is in good condition. Note: right-click in the window frame of the S.M.A.R.T, parameters and select Decimal data fields to make the values easier to read.
To view detailed hard drive information, select the Information tab. To view the software’s warnings about the hard drive, select the Alerts tab.
Check the Hard Drive and Find and Fix Bad Sectors in Hard Disk Sentinel
Where
- Short Self-test: Quickly checks the hard drive’s condition
- Extended Self-test: Checks the hard drive’s condition more thoroughly
- Random Seek Test: Random check
- Surface Test: Checks the hard drive surface and detects bad sectors
Download Hard Disk Sentinel (trial / buy a license) from the official site: hdsentinel.com
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