03-24-2018 , 01:12 AM
https://www.hdsentinel.com/revision.php Hard Disk Sentinel Revision History
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20 (23/3/2018)
Improvements and new features:
added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices
(see How to: monitor Network Attached Storage (NAS) status )
added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related to disks and storage subsystem. 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)
display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection
added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite, Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports
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
display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs
displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page
displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives)
improved WRITE testing (Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read, Reinitialise disk surface) to prevent "access denied" error
updated Help to cover new functions, features
completely redesigned tray icon handling: better sort/move/order tray icons under Windows 7, 8.1, 10
improved disk surface test performance with Intel, LSI, Dell SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs
improved disk surface test performance with hard disks formatted with 520 / 528 bytes/sector
improved text description on various errors/problems
Improved hardware support:
detection of NVMe SSD status when Intel RAID configured: detect complete status of standalone NVMe SSDs and NVMe SSDs used as RAID.
displaying Highest possible transfer rate and Negotiated transfer rate for NVMe SSDs
added support of integrated AMD RAID controller on motherboards with Ryzen CPUs: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations
added support for ATTO RAID Rxxx controllers: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations. Detect SAS drives, their status and error counters when RAID configuration used
displaying RAID controller temperature for ATTO RAID controllers
added detection of complete disk status when ASMEDIA ASM1352R external USB RAID controller used: detection of complete status when RAID 0 / RAID 1 / LARGE / JBOD confiuration used
added support of RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31, Oyen Digital Minipro RAID USB 3.1 enclosure
added support of Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMT3PB080: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA/SAS drives managed in RAID configurations.
added support of ASMEDIA ASM109x RAID controllers with proper firmware: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID0, RAID1, SPAN/large configurations
improved detection of Intel onboard RAID controller and drive status (previously some RAID disks could be missing, especially with multiple arrays and newer Intel RST drivers)
improved industrial SD card detection, added support of industrial SD cards with newer firmware versions
added support of Western Digital WD SSDs
improved detection of FASTDISK SSD
fixed health of Sandisk SSD PLUS 256 GB external SSD
improved support and reporting of SK Hynix SSDs (including SK Hynix SC311)
added support of Silicon Motion SM2258, SM2259 controllers
added support of Silicon Motion SM2260 NVMe SSDs
added support of ADATA SU800 SSD
added support of KingDian SSD, Kingspec SSD, newer Kingston SSD, Patriot Blast and further SSDs
improved NVMe SSD status detection under Windows 7, Windows 8.1 32 bit, added support of Plextor M8PeY NVMe SSD
improved error reporting with Marvell 9230 RAID controllers
improved detection time and compatibility with JMicron external enclosures
improved detection with HP Smart Array P812 RAID controller
improved detection of LSI / DELL RAID controllers when RAID 50 used
improved detection of disk status information with newer HP Smart Array controllers, drivers and HP servers
improved compatibility with Sandisk X300, Corsair Force LE, Micron SSDs
improved compatibility with LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS controllers, displaying SLOT number in Disk Interface field
improved compatibility and error reporting for LiteON SSDs
improved power on time count display of Toshiba hard disk drives
improved compatibility with 4Kn (native 4K sector size) Enterprise hard disk drives
improved compatibility with Marvell 91xx, 92xx controllers in standalone and RAID mode
improved compatibility with LSI MegaRAID 8208 controller
improved support of new Intel SSDs
improved compatibility with some pendrives, memory card readers
improved support of HP SAS SSDs, STEC SAS SSDs
improved lifetime writes of various Samsung and Sandisk SSDs
Bug fixes, further modifications:
fixed: large external hard disks could be locked (was not possible to use safe remove)
improved WMI support: no unwanted events in WMI activity log
option to keep last NN archives during backup: increased to keep up to 1000 archives
fixed: FTP projects did not clear old archives if "keep last N archives" option used
fixed problem when disk(s) selected to be displayed when they are offline and their data files removed
fixed: log of issued alerts not saved with Backup Configuration
updated language files (thanks for translators)
minor interface and tray icon changes
fixed 64-bit world wide ID field : 100% Scanned Malware Free & Clean With Windows Defender & Digital Signature: ( Janos Mathe)
Hard Disk Sentinel 5.20 (23/3/2018)
Improvements and new features:
added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices
(see How to: monitor Network Attached Storage (NAS) status )
added Configuration -> Advanced Options -> Monitor Windows Event Log for problems related to disks and storage subsystem. 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)
display if Configuration -> Disk Control -> Disable detection of USB and SCSI drives checked and blocking detection
added SSD features (Read Zeroes After Trim) and security features (Sanitize, Overwrite, Crypto scramble, Block erase etc.) to Information page and reports
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
display TRIM status in addition to complete health / temperature / status for NVMe / M.2 SSDs
displaying custom configured temperature thresholds on Temperature page
displaying lifetime writes of hard disks on main overview page (if supported, for example new Seagate and WD Black drives)
improved WRITE testing (Surface test -> Write test, Write+Read, Reinitialise disk surface) to prevent "access denied" error
updated Help to cover new functions, features
completely redesigned tray icon handling: better sort/move/order tray icons under Windows 7, 8.1, 10
improved disk surface test performance with Intel, LSI, Dell SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs
improved disk surface test performance with hard disks formatted with 520 / 528 bytes/sector
improved text description on various errors/problems
Improved hardware support:
detection of NVMe SSD status when Intel RAID configured: detect complete status of standalone NVMe SSDs and NVMe SSDs used as RAID.
displaying Highest possible transfer rate and Negotiated transfer rate for NVMe SSDs
added support of integrated AMD RAID controller on motherboards with Ryzen CPUs: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations
added support for ATTO RAID Rxxx controllers: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID configurations. Detect SAS drives, their status and error counters when RAID configuration used
displaying RAID controller temperature for ATTO RAID controllers
added detection of complete disk status when ASMEDIA ASM1352R external USB RAID controller used: detection of complete status when RAID 0 / RAID 1 / LARGE / JBOD confiuration used
added support of RaidSonic ICY BOX IB-RD2253-U31, Oyen Digital Minipro RAID USB 3.1 enclosure
added support of Intel® Integrated RAID Module RMT3PB080: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA/SAS drives managed in RAID configurations.
added support of ASMEDIA ASM109x RAID controllers with proper firmware: detection complete hard disk / SSD information, health, temperature, self-monitoring data of SATA drives managed in RAID0, RAID1, SPAN/large configurations
improved detection of Intel onboard RAID controller and drive status (previously some RAID disks could be missing, especially with multiple arrays and newer Intel RST drivers)
improved industrial SD card detection, added support of industrial SD cards with newer firmware versions
added support of Western Digital WD SSDs
improved detection of FASTDISK SSD
fixed health of Sandisk SSD PLUS 256 GB external SSD
improved support and reporting of SK Hynix SSDs (including SK Hynix SC311)
added support of Silicon Motion SM2258, SM2259 controllers
added support of Silicon Motion SM2260 NVMe SSDs
added support of ADATA SU800 SSD
added support of KingDian SSD, Kingspec SSD, newer Kingston SSD, Patriot Blast and further SSDs
improved NVMe SSD status detection under Windows 7, Windows 8.1 32 bit, added support of Plextor M8PeY NVMe SSD
improved error reporting with Marvell 9230 RAID controllers
improved detection time and compatibility with JMicron external enclosures
improved detection with HP Smart Array P812 RAID controller
improved detection of LSI / DELL RAID controllers when RAID 50 used
improved detection of disk status information with newer HP Smart Array controllers, drivers and HP servers
improved compatibility with Sandisk X300, Corsair Force LE, Micron SSDs
improved compatibility with LSI / Avago / Broadcom SAS controllers, displaying SLOT number in Disk Interface field
improved compatibility and error reporting for LiteON SSDs
improved power on time count display of Toshiba hard disk drives
improved compatibility with 4Kn (native 4K sector size) Enterprise hard disk drives
improved compatibility with Marvell 91xx, 92xx controllers in standalone and RAID mode
improved compatibility with LSI MegaRAID 8208 controller
improved support of new Intel SSDs
improved compatibility with some pendrives, memory card readers
improved support of HP SAS SSDs, STEC SAS SSDs
improved lifetime writes of various Samsung and Sandisk SSDs
Bug fixes, further modifications:
fixed: large external hard disks could be locked (was not possible to use safe remove)
improved WMI support: no unwanted events in WMI activity log
option to keep last NN archives during backup: increased to keep up to 1000 archives
fixed: FTP projects did not clear old archives if "keep last N archives" option used
fixed problem when disk(s) selected to be displayed when they are offline and their data files removed
fixed: log of issued alerts not saved with Backup Configuration
updated language files (thanks for translators)
minor interface and tray icon changes
fixed 64-bit world wide ID field : 100% Scanned Malware Free & Clean With Windows Defender & Digital Signature: ( Janos Mathe)
