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). completely redesigned tray icon handling: better sort/move/order tray icons under Windows 7, 8.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.updated Help to cover new functions, features.improved WRITE testing (Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read, Reinitialise disk surface) to prevent "access denied" error.displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives).displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page.display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs.detection and reporting new ATA standards and new ATA / Serial ATA features on Information page: Device sleep (DevSleep), Service interrupt, Device encrypts all data, IDLE IMMEDIATE, Nominal form factor, NCQ Streaming and autosense, Rebuild assist, Hybrid information.added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite, Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports.display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection.By this option, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro detects if Windows saves errors/warnings to SYSTEM event log and report recent problems detected while Hard Disk Sentinel is running/monitoring and use them in calculation of health to show issues, degradations (registered Pro version)
added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related to disks and storage subsystem.added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices.