Version History

7.6.0.1198
1. Added support for "Windows 11".
2. Removed support for "Windows XP".
3. Improved SATA version detection.
4. Improved identification SSD controllers "Marvell", "Realtek", "Silicon Motion", "Maxiotek", "LAMD".
5. Added identification of SSD controllers "Yeestor".
6. Added identification of the trademarks "Apple", "Kioxia", "Mediamax", "Walram", "Knup", "XrayDisk", "Verico", "Gudga", "SuperSSpeed", "TRM", "Torosus", "HYssd", "ValueTech", "DeTech", "Leven", "Digma", "Exram", "Teclast", "Azerty", "Pioneer", "ASint", "Suntrsi", "Emtec", "RX7", "Innovation IT", "Orico", "Mixza", "Macrovip", "Dogfish", "Samgporse", "Deotera", "Kston", "Fanxiang", "SSSTC", "Galax", "Origin", "Aigo", "ExeGate", "Best Memory", "2-Power", "Longsys", "Acos", "Acer", "Hyundai", "Golden memory", "Alketron", "Move speed", "EZCool", "HooDisk", "Jazer", "Kuijia", "Dingge", "RevuAhn", "BlueRay", "Timetec", "LaCie", "Afox", "NTC", "EVM", "Kodak", "Oeing", "Izoly", "Incehesap", "Puskill", "Unic2", "Goldenfir", "Tronos", "Pichau", "Klevv", "Tammuz", "JK", "Indilinx", "MaxM", "Oscoo", "Taifast", "YMTC", "Morebeck", "Txrui", "S3+", "MyMedia", "Kimtigo", "Vektron", "Suneast", "Wicgtyp", "Asenno", "MiLi", "Longline", "Advantech", "Kabum", "Huaxuan", "Lapcare", "Sethrise", "Festtive", "Anacomda", "Zadak", "Cuso", "ShineDisk", "Teleplan", "Easy Memory", "Dell", "Qnix", "Outton", "RceSSD", "Exbom", "Jaster", "Zotac", "Imation", "Baititon", "Edge Memory", "Mllse", "Taisu", "Pretec", "Ortial", "Quaroni", "Lensen", "Doctor Memory", "AGI", "AMD", "Ramsta", "Philips", "Clover", "Water Panther", "Aego", "DM Life", "MicroData", "MemoRight", "MicroDream", "Midasforce", "MicroFrom", "Teutons", "Neo Forza", "AITC", "Wdstars", "Biostar", "Aarvex", "Tecmiyo", "Chiptronex".
7. Improved identification of the trademarks "Kingston", "Smartbuy", "Kingmax", "Verbatim", "SK hynix", "Palit", "Gloway", "TwinMOS", "GoodRAM", "Hewlett Packard", "KingSSD", "Qumo", "Lexar", "Innodisk", "OWC", "Intel", "KingDian", "KingFast", "Faspeed", "Silicon Power", "OCZ", "Seagate", "Patriot Memory", "Adata", "Western Digital", "Super Talent", "Magnetic Data", "Team Group", "Ramaxel".

7.4.0.9873
1. Added identification of the trademarks "Biwin", "addlink", "Tcsunbow", "Lexar", "Hikvision", "TwinMOS", "Vaseky", "i.norys", "e2e4", "KingSSD", "FastDisk".
2. Improved identification of the trademarks "Foxline", "Hewlett Packard", "Lenovo", "KingSpec", "Super Talent", "Crucial", "Fujitsu", "Innodisk", "Qumo".
3. Improved identification SSD controllers "Silicon Motion", "Maxiotek", "Phison", "Marvell".

7.3.0.9794
1. Added identification of SSD controller "Realtek".
2. Improved identification SSD controllers "Phison", "Silicon Motion", "Maxiotek", "LAMD".
3. Added identification of the trademarks "LDLC", "Recadata", "Palit", "KingBank", "Ramaxel", "Zheino", "V-GeN", "Faspeed", "Gloway", "Reeinno", "LonDisk", "Lenovo", "Kingchuxing", "KData".
4. Improved identification of the trademarks "PNY", "KingSpec", "SanDisk", "Lite-On", "GoodRAM", "Smartbuy", "Drevo", "Hewlett Packard".
5. Improved detection of storage capacity.

7.3.0.9755
1. Determination of support and activity of the device sleep (DevSleep) by the storage device.
2. Improved identification of the trademarks "Galt", "Kingston".
3. Improved identification SSD controllers "Phison".
4. Automatic check for program updates.
5. Displays the load of the CPU.

7.2.0.9655
1. Improved identification SSD controllers "Marvell", "Silicon Motion", "Samsung", "SandForce", "LAMD", "Phison".
2. Improved diagnostics of external drives connected via USB interface.
3. Determine whether the drive uses TRIM.
4. Added identification of the trademark "ZTC".
5. Improved identification of the trademark "Samsung".
6. Fixed installation in Windows Vista.

7.1.0.9637
1. Improved identification of the trademarks "Drevo", "Eaget", "Colorful".
2. Added identification of SSD controller "Maxiotek".
3. Added identification S.M.A.R.T attribute "Helium Level".
4. Determination of support SATA 3.3
5. Improved identification SSD controllers "Marvell", "Silicon Motion", "Phison", "SanDisk", "LAMD".
6. Improved identification of the trademarks "KingSpec", "Hitachi", "Hewlett Packard", "SK hynix".

7.1.0.9611
1. Improved identification of the trademark "OCZ".
2. Improved identification of the dimensional form factor of the device.
3. Added identification of the connector form factor of the device (mSATA, M.2, MicroSSD, CFast).
4. Added identification of the trademark "Intenso".

7.1.0.9606
1. Added identification of the trademark "Galt".
2. Improved identification SSD controllers "Marvell", "Samsung", "Silicon Motion", "Phison", "LAMD".
3. Improved identification of brands "KingSpec", "PNY", "Netac", "Hitachi", "Samsung".

7.1.0.9583
1. Added the definition of the trademark "Qumo".
2. Improved handling of connection/removal of data storage via USB.

7.1.0.9575
1. Improved identification SSD controller "Phison" and "Silicon Motion".

7.1.0.9574
1. Added the definition of the trademark "KingDian".
2. Improved identification SSD controller "Phison".

7.1.0.9573
1. Added the definition of the trademark "SK hynix" and "GeIL".
2. Improved definition of the trademark "OCZ" and "Crucial".
3. Improved identification SSD controller "LAMD" and "Silicon Motion".

7.1.0.9571
1. Improved definition of the trademark "KingSpec".

7.1.0.9568
1. Improved identification controller SSD "Phison".

7.1.0.9567
1. Improved identification controllers SSD "Indilinx Barefoot 3", "Phison" and "Silicon Motion".
2. Added the definition of trademark "RunCore", "MyDigitalSSD", "PNY" and "GoodRAM".

7.1.0.9540
1. Added identification of the SSD controller "Silicon Motion".
2. Improved identification of the SSD controller "Marvell".

7.1.0.9533
1. Definition of the form-factor drive.
2. Improved identification of the SSD controllers "SandForce" and "Marvell".

5.9.1.9483
1. Added the ability to display the temperature in Fahrenheit in the system notifications Windows.
2. Added the ability to display the temperature in the system tray only the hottest drive.
3. Improved identification of the SSD controller "Phison".

5.9.1.9378
1. Improved definition version of SATA.
2. Determination of the maximum and current speed of SATA.
3. Improved definition of the host controller.
4. Improved determination of the temperature.
5. Improved identification of the SSD controller "Phison".

5.9.1.9290
1. Support portable hard drive with USB interface.
2. Improved definition of the trademark "Western Digital".
3. Added detection of the trademark "KingFast".
4. Improved identification of SSD controller "Marvell".

5.0.1.9192
1. Improved definition of the time required for the destruction of data.
2. Fixed detection sensitivity level free-fall sensor.
3. Improved identification SSD controllers "SandForce", "Marvell".
4. Fixed identification of unknown S.M.A.R.T. attributes.
5. Added identification of the controller SSD "LAMD".
6. Determination of support TRIM.
7. Improved determination of the temperature of the drive.
8. Improved definition of S.M.A.R.T. attributes on the controller SSD "Phison".

4.1.1.9111
1. Added detection of the trademark "InnoDisk", "SanDisk", "Plextor", "Mushkin", "Micron", "Kingmax", "KingSpec", "Lite-On", "Verbatim", "Foxline", "OWC", "Ezlink", "SmartBuy", "Team Group".
2. Improved definition of trademark "Silicon Power", "Super Talent", "Toshiba", "Corsair", "Samsung", "Patriot Memory", "OCZ", "Crucial", "Hitachi", "Seagate", "Hewlett-Packard".
3. Added detection of manufacturers SSD controllers "Plextor", "SanDisk", "Toshiba", "Phison", "Marvell", "Indilinx".
4. Improved identification of the manufacturer SSD controller "Samsung", "SandForce", "JMicron".
5. Improved support "Windows 8".
6. Added discussion of the hard drives.
7. Improved measurement speed characteristics.
8. Added forced recovery AAM and APM when exiting the operating system from power-saving mode.
9. Added support SCT.
10. To determine the maximum temperature limit and the maximum recommended temperature.
11. An improved driver emulates a regular ATA hard disk drives as SCSI.
12. Added detection of the speed of rotation of a spindle motor.
13. Automatic selection of the width of the report, depending on the longest line in the report.
14. Improved handling of exit from a power-saving mode.
15. Display S.M.A.R.T. with all known controllers.

2.0.0.7710
1. Improved compatibility with "Windows 7".
3. Correction window size measuring hard drive performance.
4. Added support for Solid-state Drives (SSD) production of "Silicon Power".
5. Improved definition of hard drives from "Hewlett-Packard".
6. Added determination of the "TrekStor" trademark.
7. Added support for Solid-state Drives (SSD) production of "TrekStor", "Silicon Power", "Adata", "Crucial", "Super Talent Technology", "PQI", "G.Skill", "takeMS", "Extrememory".
8. Determination of support SATA-3.

0.8.0.7574
1. Added support for solid-state drives (SSD) manufactured by "Patriot Memory", "OCZ Technology", "Kingston Technology", "Intel".
2. Added determination of "Magnetic Data Technologies", "Hewlett-Packard" trademarks.
3. Added support of I-RAM manufactured by "Gigabyte".

0.8.0.7451
1. New analysis results were added to the already existing "Correct", "Pre-failure" and "Unreliable". The new ones are "Ex-prefailure" and "Ex-irresponsible".
2. Added support for solid-state drives (SSD) manufactured by "Transcend" и "Silicon Motion".
3. Added analysis of self-diagnosis interruption by another process.
4. Fixed temperature determination for some hard drives models manufactured by "Samsung".

0.8.0.7315
1. Determination of the hybrid storage devices.
2. Determination of flash memory use and capacity of the latter.
3. Determination of capability and activity of flash memory additional power-saving mode.
4. Improved algorithm of no optimal data transfer mode determination for hard disk drives with the parallel interface (PATA).

0.8.0.7252
1. Determination of support, activity, and sensitivity of the free-fall sensor.
2. Added determination of Nikimi trademark.
3. Determination of previous trademark owners.
4. Ordered hypertext is displaying information in expert mode.

0.8.0.7038
1. Determination of hardware data cryptography support (BitLocker).
2. Analysis of serial interface (SATA) data transfers mode optimality.
3. Correction of HDD model name distortion by individual drivers.

0.8.0.7034
1. Full compatibility with Microsoft Windows Vista.
2. Determination of hard disk drives manufacturer's trademark.

0.8.0.6853
1. Increased stability of linear disk read speed measurement using original (S)ATA NVIDIA nForce controller drivers.
2. The capability of sending of the report without the use of the post client.

0.8.0.6641
1. Improved determination of the hard drive hardware access restriction state.
2. Improved determination of the power-saving state of a storage device and operating system.
3. Improved determination of the files used to access the HDD for obsolete drivers who do not support PnP.

0.8.0.6628
1. The increase of the hard disk drives speed performance measurement precision.
2. Determination of instability while reading the information.
3. Determination of a steady speed of linear reading.
4. Determination of the percentage of data reading instability.
5. Determination of motherboard ATA controller revision.
6. Improved algorithm of driver files listing.

0.8.0.6300
1. The increase of computer configurations quantity (master controller + driver) for providing direct access to the hard drive to tune the latter.
2. Displaying file names used by drivers to access the storage device.
3. Measurement of buffered disk read speed (speed of information exchange between the motherboard controller and hard drive controller).

0.8.0.5832
1. Displaying of last known hard disk drive temperature in gray if the power-saving mode is active.
2. Single notification of data storing reliability decay in case a hard drive or operating system shifts to the power-saving mode.
3. Single notification in case of detection of the excess of the peak temperature recommended by the producer suggesting a more detailed inspection of this event.
4. Refusal of support of the old operation systems of the "MS Windows 9x" family.

0.8.0.5086
1. A new analysis result was added to the already existing "Correct" and "Pre-failure". "Unreliable".
2. Warning about HDD manufacturer's guarantee expiration.
3. Displaying of temperature in red in case of hard drive overheat detection.

0.8.0.4622
1. Hard disk drives are tuning (AAM and APM management).
2. Starting and results analysis of hard drive internal self-diagnosis.
3. Optimal use of screen dimensions for displaying the information ("rubber" report).
4. Determination of hidden partition support.
5. Determination of support and activity of partition access restriction.
6. Determination of command overlapping support.
7. Determination of command queuing support (TCQ, NCQ).
8. SATA-2 support determination.

0.7.0.3767
1. Increased average access time measurement precision in 10 times.
2. Improved notification algorithm in case of magnetic surface degradation.
3. Displaying of the performance analysis process.
4. Added error description if a report cannot be sent.

0.7.0.3379
1. Determination of the quantity of power switching on times during the whole hard disk drive life period.
2. Determination of self-diagnosis types supports and their execution time.

0.7.0.3093
1. Displaying of logical disks connection with physical devices.
2. Extended file systems defragmentation.

0.7.0.3002
1. Fixed microcode error for sure "Seagate" hard disk drive models, which previously caused wrong temperature determination.
2. Notification of HDD magnetic surface degradation.
3. Determination of the hard drive operation time from the date of production and estimation of the number of bad sectors.
4. Expert mode (report division into simplified and extended variants).

0.7.0.1679
1. Determination of parallel interface channel (primary or secondary) to which storage device is connected and setup of the latter (master or slave).

0.7.0.1600
1. File systems defragmentation.
2. Performance analysis.

0.7.0.1377
1. Notification of hard disk drives pre-failure condition.
2. User-friendly capacity determination of hard drive and hardware-based cache memory.

0.7.0.1228
1. Interface type determination - parallel (PATA), serial (SATA).
2. Determination of the highest hard drive temperature reached during the program work period or the entire performance life for "Seagate" models.

0.7.0.1105
1. Integrated into the executable file function of installing, upgrading and uninstalling of the program.
2. Determination of main nominal hard disk drives parameters.