Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. 30 seconds into the scan i notice that the drive has 976,783,360 sectors.Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. so I looked into it some more, and found out it had 65 bad/reallocated sectors and thought to myself 'damn, that seem like a high number' I better start an surface scan and make sure its not a fluke. HD sentinel told me that I had a dying drive, it marked it at 35% health and gave it a lifespan of 202 days. YMMV, but I have been using the drive as a non-important mass storage device in part of a RAID 0 with 6 other drives that is used 100% for speed with data that is backed up on another 4TB. there are so many things that could have caused that small amount of sectors to require reallocation/ cause defects, and as long as you dont see continuing/growing errors then you are fine. I have been using that drive without ANY other errors on it for the last 4 years. You can check the links, they all come from, which is the software developer. is where I found my key file it and it links you to everything on the real server directly.Īnywhere, here is the direct link that is probably safer to use as it comes from the first-party server:

However this site the OP linked to is prompting you to download some unknown exe, and that kinda worries me. It's not like we are passing around a license to each other. But, alas, if the company themselves is hosting the free license, I would reasonably think its still free to use. I debated for a while about making a post about this cause I didn't want to draw attention to it since I assume its a mistake that it was left up after the giveaway was complete. I have a portable copy I use the license on.

It's for version 4.20, but its not that old and still works with everything I threw at it. I found the license was given away on a 'Free app of the day site' and it links back to a license file that is stored on HD Sentinel's server directly. That was probably me who you saw mention this a while back.

Hdd sentinel portable google drive