Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 6.40 (23/2/2026)
Improvements and new features:
- added button to save screenshot about Hard Disk Sentinel main window (CTRL+Print Screen)
- options to configure screenshot settings (screenshot folder, file name template, file format (PNG/JPG/BMP), single-click screenshot)
- added button to safely eject (remove/disconnect) the selected removable drive (CTRL+F5)
- right click on the safely eject (remove/disconnect) button to allow re-activate a previously safely removed drive if possible (CTRL+F6)
- display Drive Recording Type: CMR or SMR for hard disk drives on Information page
- added date/time of alert in alert pop up window
Improved hardware support:
- faster and improved NVMe RAID detection with Intel VROC controller / RAID configurations
- added hardware self test function (Disk menu -> Short self test, Extended self test) for USB-NVMe adapters/converters/docks with Realtek chipset
- added support of Sandisk SD Express card reader, SD Express memory cards: detect and report health, temperature, lifetime status, S.M.A.R.T. details of SD Express cards
- added support of TEAMGROUP T-CREATE EXPERT S.M.A.R.T. Micro SDXC Memory Card (128 GB-2 TB): detect micro SD card Health %, total amount of written data (lifetime writes).
To enable: select Control device-specific detection on the right side of the main window and use the Auto detect button - added support of TEAMGROUP T-CREATE EXPERT V60 SDXC Memory Card (64 GB-1 TB): detect card Health %, erase count, endurance, power cycle count
To enable: select Control device-specific detection on the right side of the main window and use the Auto detect button - added support of LSI Nytro WarpDrive: detect complete status (health, temperature, lifetime writes, power on time and complete S.M.A.R.T. details) of all SSDs
- added support of 2230 USB-NVMe enclosure with write protect switch
- added support of UGREEN 4 drive RAID USB box: detect health, temperature, S.M.A.R.T. status of disk drives in RAID configuration
- added support of NVMe2K NVMe driver: detect complete NVMe status under Windows XP / 2000, thanks to Techomancer for the NVMe2K driver
- detect/report of additional NVMe S.M.A.R.T. attributes (if available): Thermal Management Transition Count, Total Time For Thermal Management Temperature
- detect/report FARM LOG / status information on OOS (recertified) drives if available
- improved NVMe, SAS, SATA status detection with Broadcom 9400 and 9500 series tri-mode HBAs
- improved detection and support of LSI SAS3 Cutlass and various Broadcom, Lenovo SATA/SAS controllers
- improved detection/health reporting of Lenovo SAS drives on Lenovo SAS RAID controllers
- improved compatibility and detection of SATA and SAS drives with Highpoint Rocket 720L controller
- improved detection/health reporting of some Hitachi HGST SAS drives
- improved detection/reporting of Intel DC3500 series SSDs
- improved support of some ADATA, Sandisk, WD, Kingspec, Lite-On, Toshiba, Kioxia, SHAREVDI, Faspeed SSDs
- improved disk short / extended self test and support of 4Kn SAS drives with non-standard sector sizes (4160/4224 bytes/sector)
- improved hardware self tests (Disk menu -> short self test, extended self test) with various USB adapters, USB docks
- improved compatibility with ACASIS 5 bay USB-SATA enclosure
- improved compatibility with ORICO NS500, ORICO 9558, ORICO 9858RU3, Mediasonic and various USB RAID hard disk enclosures
- improved support of Kingston Fury Renegade NVMe SSDs
- improved detection with various Adaptec RAID controllers with SAS SSDs
- added support of SSK NVMe SSD Cloner M.2 Duplicator Dual Bay NVMe Enclosure
- added/improved support of Crucial X10 USB SSD, Lexar ES4, Lexar ES5 USB-SSD
- improved support of various USB-NVMe adapters, enclosures, docks
- improved detection and disk status reporting with different USB-SATA hard disk docks, converters, enclosures
- improved support of ATP mSATA SSDs
- improved detection and status, Health reporting of Silicon Power MS60 pendrive
- improved lifetime writes on Samsung SM951 SSD
- improved detection, status reporting and error logging of various Micron SATA SSDs
- improved text report of SK HYNIX SATA SSDs with errors
- improved compatibility with various USB devices with card readers
- improved detection when multiple FusionIO ioDrive SSDs / ioDrive Duo drives used
Bug fixes, further modifications:
- improved registration information / licensing messages
- improved network operation
- added Dutch Help and minor changes in Dutch language support, thanks to Jaap Kramer for the translation
- added Portuguese language support, thanks to Filipe Mota (BlackSpirits) for the translation
- fixed message dialogs if high number of disks present and S.M.A.R.T. offset used
- minor changes, modifications, optimizations
