Hard Disk Sentinel Professional

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional is simply put an application you can always rely on when it comes to testing and understanding if your storage devices, mainly HDDs or SSDs, are working properly.

With this in mind, I felt this program was also quite detailed in terms of the elements and values it shows, while keeping it simple for those who only need basic information and just a couple of values from the many shown.

I really liked how organized the whole app interface was. The main window is a simpler approach to HDD and SSD analysis, but nevertheless, it is thorough, showing temperature averages, graphs detailing this data, general health status levels in percentages, and some aspects regarding free space left on your drives.

It is by far the best tool to either check or show others that your HDD is in good shape. Comes in really handy when selling drives to others, or when buying them second-hand from stores or private owners. I used it many times in such situations, and this prevented me from ending up with a bad product.

One aspect that intrigued me and also surprised me was the support for S.M.A.R.T protocols, which go into detail about your drive health, identifying bad sectors, reading any issues the device has faced at a more physical level, keeping count of replaced sectors, and so on.

Read-write speed tests aid you once again in determining your machine's performance, while also being quite helpful in situations where you are either buying or selling such storage devices.

Hard Disk Sentinel Professional is indeed a professional application as the name states, dealing with multiple aspects of HDD usage and safety. I was quite pleased with the work it did when I required expertise in this very detailed domain.