Another chance- Hard Disk Sentinel (and SSDs) free- 2+ days from 15th

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This gives the best indication I know of problems immediately when run, from connection problems to the drive itself, and an attempt to predict remaining life.

Detect Hard Drive Issues Before Catastrophe Strikes

Hard Disk Sentinel is a hard disk monitoring software with highest possible support of HDD/SSD/SSHD (hybrid) drives. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the hard disks and solid state disks inside the computer or in external enclosures (USB / e-SATA). Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.


The software monitors hard disk drive / HDD status, including health, temperature and all S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, built in most hard disks, solid state disks and hybrid drives (SSHD) today) values for each disks. Also it measures the disk transfer speed in real time which can be used as a benchmark or to detect possible hard disk failures, performance degradations.


Hard Disk Sentinel is the perfect data protection solution: it can be effectively used to prevent HDD failure and SSD / HDD data loss because it has the most sensitive hard disk health rating system which is extremely sensitive to hard disk problems. This way even a small HDD problem can’t be missed.

Sharewareonsale? You just get an email with the details of what you asked for. No rubbish- reputable.

It's an absolutely reputable firm. I actually won one of the competitions- free license and £50. Been using the program as a giveaway for years. You can always unsubscribe afterwards.

Nothing to do with robocalls; and definitely a very good program- way better than others.

Anyway, your loss.

All you get from Sharewareonsale is an email with your activation code (if any) and a download link.