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Dulcie Yauck
I recently had a hard drive fail due to bad sectors. I only found about about the bad sector when I did a routine reboot and the BIOS bootup screen warned me of SMART errors. I used CrystalDiskInfo to see the details of the SMART errors. I found a program called Hard Disk Sentinel and it runs in the background 24/7. The Pro version has the ability to notify you of issues. Its also discounted right now.
Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a hard disk monitoring software with highest possible support of HDD/SSD/SSHD (hybrid) drives. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the hard disks and solid state disks inside the computer or in external enclosures (USB / e-SATA). Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.
The software monitors hard disk drive / HDD status, including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks, solid state disks and hybrid drives (SSHD) today) values for each disks. Also it measures the disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations.
HDSentinel is the perfect data protection solution: it can be effectively used to prevent HDD failure and SSD / HDD data loss because it has the most sensitive hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to hard disk problems. This way even a small HDD problem can't be missed. The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) hard disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.
Hard Disk Sentinel monitors hard disk status, health and performance including temperature and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks today) values for each hard disks. Also it measures the hard disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations. Hard Disk Sentinel can be used to prevent serious damage or data loss. It warns the user before a problem may occur and this gives opportunity to backup important and valuable data.
Version 6.10 included a more graphic interface on par with Windows 11 as well as supports quick disk repairing, additional warnings and statuses display. This version focused on some changes in favour of detecting more problems before they are able to cause data loss.[25][26][27][28]
The software is designed to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drives, reveal problems, display health and avoid failures by using S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) function of hard disk drives.[29][30][31] The detected information can be saved to file in formats such as HTML, text, or XML.[32][33][34]
In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel DOS version released in different formats on bootable pendrive, CD, floppy. Usable when no operating system installed (or if the system is not bootable otherwise) to detect and display temperature, health status of IDE, SATA hard disk drives and with limited AHCI controller support. The DOS version has no graphical user interface or disk testing functions and does not support RAID configurations.[41][42]
In 2008, Hard Disk Sentinel Linux version released, a command-line console tool detection and showing disk status with limited support of RAID configuration and SSDs in addition to hard disk status detection. The Linux version is available on x86, x64 and Raspberry PI, ARMv5 platforms.[43][better source needed]
Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a comprehensive monitoring and analysis tool designed for both SSDs and HDDs across multiple operating systems. The software aims to identify, test, diagnose, and repair disk drive issues while providing detailed reports on disk health and performance. It supports internal and external hard disks, SSDs, hybrid drives (SSHDs), RAID arrays, and even Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.
If it's a Samsung drive, the suggestion to run SeaTools should be definitive. 3d-party diagnostics may misinterpret the data reflected for a drive, while SeaTools is the product of the hard drive manufacturer.
FWIW: I run the paid version of Hard Disk Sentinel, consider it trustworthy and accurate...have tested it against other diagnostics. But...SeaTools is the better tool for any Samsung/Seagate/Maxtor hard drive, IMO.
I tested the same disk that got temperature warning in HD Tune Pro with Hard Disk Sentinel 4.60 Pro, and got the result that the disk during it's TOTAL lifetime have had extreme temperature. The disk is still usable, and I'm going to try and update the Firmware and isolate the bad sectors. In other words, the info from HD Tune Pro was somewhat misleading.
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I checked out the Gnome site for a better description of the test being run. It seems to me that the gnome-disks software might be running some additional tests beyond what the SSD or Hard Drive may report with its statistics with the disk BIOS.
I attempted (with Ubuntu Disks) to format the drive, but the drive was not responsive. After going to the Format Disk menu and selecting to Format the Disks, the disk is still left with the original partitions:
Right now - even though the disk does not seem functional - I do not understand if there is warranty support. That is because Hard Disk Sentinel reports that there is no warranty coverage currently, even though the disk is broken, and it is impossible to write to the device with the Ubuntu shell dd command:
Thus, according to these references, this attribute may indicate that the drive might fail in the coming months. But I agree that the failure is not just the attribute value, which is "pre-fail". The disk has already failed since the dd command is unable to write data to it! The question is around warranty coverage since HDSentinel seems to indicate that the disk is still within its warranty period even though I am unable to write data to it now.
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 thru the features and options.
Instant S.M.A.R.T. analysing
Hard Disk Sentinel can communicate with all IDE, Serial ATA, NVMe, SCSI, SAS and most USB hard disk drives, SSD and hybrid drives (SSHD) to detect their status and temperature. Hard disk status are displayed immediately as you launch the application, there is no need to analyse hard 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.
Hard Disk Hardware and Software Tests
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 theShort self test). The Extended self test also verifies the complete hard disk surface, finds and repairs all weak areas and re-allocates the possible bad sectors. This is not possible with the software-based hard disk surface scan methods (for example, by using scandisk).
Logging
Hard Disk Sentinel logs all degradations in all SMART parameters and issues alerts in such cases to maximise data protection. For example, if a new bad sector is found on your hard disk, you will be notified.
Shutdown
Offers option to shut down the computer on hard disk failure, HDD overheat or health degradation. This option can be used in combination of the alerts to prevent further data loss.
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.
Information on demand
Current hard disk temperatures and health are displyed on the system tray and can be displayed in a small status window, the desktop itself or in a sidebar gadget (under Windows Vista or newer operating system). Average and maximum temperatures are logged for all hard disks and these informations are displayed in graphs for statistical purposes.