v5.2 [Jun 13, 2018]
- added option to monitor NAS boxes, hard disks used with Network Attached Storage devices.
- 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.
