Hard Disk Sentinel Alternatives

Hard Disk Sentinel is described as 'Monitor hard drive health, predict failures with S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics, schedule backups, run performance tests, log temperatures, and repair errors' and is a popular hard disk diagnostic tool in the system & hardware category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Hard Disk Sentinel for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and BSD apps. The best Hard Disk Sentinel alternative is CrystalDiskInfo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Hard Disk Sentinel are HD Tune, Victoria, smartmontools and DriveDx.

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Hard Disk Sentinel alternatives are mainly Hard Disk Diagnostic Tools, but if you're looking for Benchmark Tools or Hard Disk Recovery Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Mac, Free and Linux. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Hard Disk Sentinel.
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  1. MHDD icon
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    MHDD is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics.

    MHDD supports these interfaces: IDE, Serial ATA, SCSI. Also there is a possibility to access an USB storage, there are drivers for emulation (USB->SCSI).

    This software can make precise diagnostic of the.

    21 MHDD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. SeaTools icon
     10 likes

    SeaTools is a diagnostic tool that helps you determine the condition of the disk drive in your external hard drive, desktop or laptop computer.

    29 SeaTools alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Macrorit Disk Scanner is a third party disk surface portable tool for scan disk bad sectors which provides you with better options and better performance than Windows native disk scanner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. HDAT2 icon
     15 likes

    HDAT2 is program for test or diagnostics of ATA/ATAPI/SATA, SSD, USB and SCSI devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. SMARTHDD icon
     2 likes

    A SMARTHDD intended for troubleshooting and operation optimization of HDD and SSD storages. Allows adjusting characteristics of HDD and SSD by modifying the positioning speed of magnetic heads (AAM) and fine-tuning power consumption (APM).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. HDDExpert icon
     1 like

    HDDExpert gives you a crystal-clear vision of your Hard Drive (HDD or SSD) health and performance and translates S.M.A.R.T. attributes into readable indication.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. HDDLife icon
     1 like

    Modern hard drives are much more reliable than the disks of yesterday. However, they still are extremely complex electronic devices with moving parts that are subject to amortization. The high density of data storage provided by the modern disks allows for greater storage...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SMARTReporter icon
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    SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the built-in S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drives as well as performing other checks for "I/O errors" or R.A.I.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. DHE DriveInfo icon
     5 likes

    DHE DriveInfoshows HDD information: Manufacturer, Product ID, Serialnumber, Firmware, ATA-Standard, BUS Info (S-ATA 150/300/600, P-ATA, USB, SCSI), Size, Buffer Size, Rotation Rate, Formfactor, Features, AAM, APM, Master Boot Record, Disk ID, Bootloader

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. IsMyHdOK icon
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    IsMyHdOK is a small program but effective solution to easily check the Performance of a Windows Volume eg. Partition!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12.  1 like

    Pc-Check will scan for errors in all hardware components on the computer it is being deployed on and display diagnostic results. The software is bootable from CDs and USBs, so even if the OS won't start the program will still be able to run.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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