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Hard Disk Sentinel (standard) overview

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) 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.

 

HDSentinel 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. The Professional version has scheduled and automatic (on-problem) hard disk backup options to prevent data loss caused by not only failure but by malware or accidental delete also.

 

Rufus 

As to why it’s called Rufus, we’d have to ask Pete Batard. But Rufus is arguably the best lightweight bootable USB flash disk utility available on Windows today. In fact, if you are one to create a bootable disc image or ISO from time to time, we’re willing to bet that you’ve used Rufus at least once.

In today’s world where Laptops and PCs are being demanded in increasingly thin specs, manufacturers have wasted no time in doing away with DVD drives and Blu-ray players.

In the absence of a DVD or a DVD drive, Rufus plays a powerful role in helping users to turn their flash drives into a form of reusable DVDs. While there are other software like UNetbootin and Universal USB installer, Rufus is marginally faster, more efficient and more reliable that its competitors. As the software continues to be developed and improved on many fronts, here’s our Rufus 2018 review.

 

Rufus Portable's user interface is small and efficient in layout. It identified five system devices, including the USB thumb drive we chose for our bootable disk. Most Windows users will want the default partition scheme, MBR for BIOS or UEFI computers, but Rufus also supports MBR and GPT schemes for UEFI machines. The File System menu is your USB drive's format, such as FAT (default) or FAT32 (our drive) though Rufus supports NTFS, UDF, and exFAT, too. Rufus offers custom Cluster Size and Format options, including the option to encode your disk in MS-DOS or FreeDOS or create an ISO image you can burn to disk. We created our disk and then successfully booted our system with it.

Be aware that Rufus reformats your USB drive, so be sure to back up and save any existing data before you hit "Start." Rufus uses very little space, so you can use the rest of the drive normally. Just keep it handy when disaster strikes!