HDD Sentinel Comes to Myce

Here at Myce
we’re always striving to bring you the most interesting storage related site
online, so when a good opportunity to introduce content arises we’re happy to
provide for it.

As part of this commitment we are pleased
to announce the HDD Sentinel forum and
we feel that it is something that will interest many of our members.

So
what is HDD Sentinel (HD Sentinel)?
HD Sentinel is essentially a range of drive
monitoring software for both HDDs and SSDs and its purpose is to seek to
improve on the self monitoring analysis and reporting technology (Smart) built
into drives.

Data security is important to everyone and
when drives fail it can be anything from a soul shattering experience to at
best an annoying inconvenience. Advance warning of drive problems is therefore
important to many people, and this is where Smart normally comes into play.

In reality however it isn’t really as smart
as it could be and it’s possible to improve on the reporting provided by the routines.

HD Sentinel provides an in depth analysis of the various reports generated by Smart and uses these
to better predict a drive’s current status, giving a more accurate picture of
the drive’s health.

The technical reasons behind this are many
and you’ll find further details of how these improvements are actually technically possible.

It works with both internal and external
drives, and is available for various OSs,
in a range of versions which is designed to facilitate the needs of everyone
from basic users all the way up to enterprise users seeking advanced networking
capabilities.

Myce is pleased to welcome HD Sentinel
to our forums and as part of this HD Sentinel has agreed to run a competition
specially for the launch.