hard disk inspector trial software / shareware for windows

Hard Drive Inspector Professional 3.25 is such an useful program which allows you to monitor your hard disk state and prevent its failure. As the access to electronic information becomes more and more vital in business and at home, Hard Drive Inspector allows exceeding the traditional limits of HDDs reliability, thus extending the level of valuable user data protection.

The program has a flexible option system, which allows you to customize the functionality of this utility according to your needs. Quik Tech Solutions USB storage adapters has been added.

• Show notification
• Shut down the system
• Suspend the system
• Hibernate the system
• Play sound
• Send e-mail

1. Easy to use interface
   • All information are displayed in the main window of the application. Quick controls allow easy navigation to access all hard disks, partitions and different information. Intuitive user interface elements display information by using green/yellow/red color to indicate the level of problem. Detailed text description and context sensitive help guides the user through the features and options.
2. 1. Install > 2. Configure > 3. Stay protected
   • Just install, configure alerts and backup options and your system is now safe. You'll be notified about the problems - but if everything is correct, Hard Disk Sentinel just sits on tray and displays current status. The data is protected 24 hours daily, 7 days a week.
3. Instant S.M.A.R.T. analyzing
   • Hard Disk Sentinel can communicate with IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI and some special USB hard disks to detect their status and temperature. Disk status are displayed immediately as you launch the application, there is no need to analyze disks for a long period. It displays the current and maximum temperature for the hard disk. It reads all general and vendor-specific attributes and monitor their values. For advanced users, all raw data are displayed also including power-on time and number of read/write errors. Hard Disk Sentinel interprets the performance and fitness related S.M.A.R.T. values and displays the calculated Performance and Health percentage, total power on time and estimated lifetime remaining.
4. Disk status in Windows Explorer
   • View the current health status and used space in Windows Explorer or in any other application, so you'll always know the amount of used space for each partitions and the disk condition.
5. Information on demand
   • Current hard disk temperatures and health can be displayed on the system tray, in a small status window and on the desktop itself. Average and maximum temperatures are logged for all hard disks and these information are displayed in graphs for statistical purposes.
6. Hard Disk Hardware
   • By using Hard Disk Sentinel, it is possible to start hardware hard disk self tests. These tests can be used to effectively find all hard disk problems because built-in hardware methods are used to verify hard disk components (for example heads, servo, internal buffer in the Short self test). The Extended self test also verifies the complete disk surface, finds and repairs all "weak" areas and re-allocates the possible bad sectors. This is not possible with the software-based disk surface scan methods (for example, by using scandisk).
7. New feature in version 2.90: Seek Test - to verify hard disk noise, seek time performance and temperature. Longer tests can be used as very deep and intensive stress-tests for the disk system and useful to verify if additional cooling is required.
8. Logging
   • Hard Disk Sentinel logs all degradations in all SMART parameters. For example, if a new uncorrectable sector is found on your hard disk, you will be notified.
9. Alerts
   • Hard Disk Sentinel can make different kind of alerts upon different problems. It can execute various tasks (even external applications) in case of a problem. There is an option to send daily emails about current status.
10. Hard Disk Details
    • Detects and displays every information about the hard disk, from the revision number and buffer size to all features it has. The maximum available and current transfer modes are also displayed.
11. Hard Disk Performance
    • Logs how much data were read from or written to the hard disk. Displays current transfer rates for both reading and writing and estimates the maximum available (theoretical) transfer rate for a particular hard disk.
12. Hard Disk Partitions
    • Displays partitions for each physical hard disks and type and usage informations about them so you cannot run out of space. Hard Disk Sentinel sends this information automatically in alert/status messages.
13. Shutdown
    • It offers option to shut down the computer on failure, overheat or parameter degradation. This option can be used to prevent further data loss.
14. Acoustic Management
    • Offers option to control the acoustic level of IDE/S-ATA hard disk. It is possible to increase performance or make the disks more silent. Unique feature: control the acoustic level of your external USB hard disk (if your USB enclosure is equipped with proper USB-ATA bridge chip which supports this feature).
15. Clock Synchronization
    • It offers option to synchronize the PC clock with an atomic clock via NTP (Network Time Protocol).
16. Backup
    • In the Professional version, wide range of backup methods are available: to backup data to local computer, to a LAN server or to a remote FTP (or to a mail) server. It is even possible to use 3rd party tools to create archives or burn media. Hard Disk Sentinel can manage power status of remote computers in the network.
17. Improvements
    • Hard Disk Sentinel is constantly improving. More features will be available soon.

Enhancements:

• Added support for newer NVidia chipsets and different previously unsupported controllers;
• Added 300+ new hard disks to database;
• Properly support Dutch language (thanks to Geert Pirens);
• Properly support Ukrainian language (thanks to Alexey Lugin);
• Improved speed and responsiveness of the software;
• Detecting and displaying hard disk controller and location information;
• Detecting and displaying new disk features (free-fall control, NV cache size, etc.);
• Detecting and displaying more version and transport details;
• Menu and report changes, improvements.

Requirements:

• Windows operating system (Windows 95, 98, 98SE, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008, Vista, Win 7)
• System administrator account (in service mode, it is possible to use without administrator rights and without even user logged in)
• At least 15 megabytes of hard disk space
• Hard disk with ATA (IDE or Serial ATA/SATA II), SCSI, SAS, USB interface.
• USB hard disk support depends on the USB-ATA bridge chips.
• Other type of external disks (USB or IEEE 1394) are NOT supported because the hard disk controller chip in the external enclosure does not support the detection of S.M.A.R.T. information.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista