The detected information can be saved to file in formats such as HTML, text, or XML. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) function of hard disk drives. The software is designed to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drives, reveal problems, display health and avoid failures by using S.M.A.R.T. This allows creating 3rd party applications/add-ons to work together with Hard Disk Sentinel, for example integration with NagiOS. In 2017, Version 5.00 released with Disk Repair functionality and NAS monitoring, export status in XML and WMI.

Since 2012, with version 4.00, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro Portable version is available, working without installation. Since 2009, with version 3.00, Hard Disk Sentinel supports numerous RAID controllers, by detection of hard disk status in RAID configurations and disk surface testing. In 2007, version 2.00 released with supporting USB drives along with free trial (unregistered) version, Hard Disk Sentinel standard (paid version with basic disk monitoring) and Hard Disk Sentinel Professional (paid version with alerts, detailed reports, tests). The very first version of Hard Disk Sentinel for Windows released on. Hard Disk Sentinel was founded and first released in 2005, developed by Heartfelt Development Services based in Urhida, Hungary with János Máthé as the company's CEO.

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