How to Check Laptop Hard Disk Health with Hard Disk Sentinel

The Importance of Knowing Laptop Hard Disk Health 

Hard Disk is one of the important components on a laptop or computer. Hard disk functions to store data, laptop hard disk damage is one of the most feared for Laptop or computer users.

If other components are damaged, maybe just buy and the problem is solved. But if the hard drive is damaged, you risk losing important data that may be more valuable than the entire nominal price of the Laptop. 

For this reason, it is very important to know the health of the hard disk that we use. Especially if the laptop feels slower than usual. Because if the laptop hard disk is damaged or bad sector, reading the system to the hard disk becomes slower and this affects the performance of the laptop.

There are many software to check the health of the hard drive, one of which is simple and powerful is Hard Disk Sentinel. With Hard Disk Sentinel we can check the health of the hard drive quickly, because this application can read the SMART status of our hard drive health. Here's a look at the Hard Disk Sentinel application

In the image above, there is one hard drive whose health is 10%. It also states that there are 1064 bad sectors. This software automatically suggests backing up data immediately before the hard drive is damaged and at risk of data loss. It also includes information on how many days the hard drive has been used and how much longer the hard drive can last. 

How Sentinel Hard Disk Works

Hard Disk Sentinel runs in the background and verifies the health status of the SSD/HDD by checking the SMART status of the disk. If errors are found or unexpected behavior is detected, it can alert the user about the condition of the hard drive so that we can take appropriate action (for example, start automatic backups).

The health status of a hard disk usually slowly declines, day by day. SMART monitoring technology can predict HDD failure by checking the critical values of the disk drive. Compared to other software, Hard Disk Sentinel detects and reports every disk problem.

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It is much more sensitive to disk failures and can display better and more detailed information about expected hard disk health and problems found (if any). This is a more sophisticated way of predicting failures than the "traditional" method: checking S.M.A.R.T. only thresholds and attribute values. 

Hardisk Sentinel also has the ability to log the maximum and minimum temperature as well as the average temperature of the hard disk. This can be used to check the maximum temperature when the hard disk is used for high performance.

Pros of Hardi Disk Sentinel

• Can quickly determine the health of the hard disk
• there is information on how long the hard drive is used
• there is information on how long the hard disk can last.
• Display hard disk temperature information
• has the facility to surface test hard disks
• there is a display of hard disk performance information

Sentinel Hard Disk Installation
To install sentinel hard disk, please visit sentinel hard disk official website.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/

Operating Systems that Sentinel Hard Disk supports

• Windows 98/98SE
• Windows ME
• Windows NT4
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003 Server
• Windows HOME Server
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 2008 Server
• Windows HOME Server 2011
• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows 2012 Server
• Windows 2016 Server
• Linux
• MS-DOS / PC-DOS / FreeDOS