Examples
Optimize complete system for silence: hdsentinel -setaam all quiet
Optimize complete system for high performance (but louder disk access):
 hdsentinel -setaam all loud

Select a balanced level between silence and performance on drive 0:
 hdsentinel -setaam 0 C0

 Note: some disks do not support balanced settings and they may select the
       most silent (80) or high performance (FE) setting instead.
 Please start hsentinel without parameters to see drive assignments
 (eg. /dev/sda) to drive indexes.
Due to the high amount of requests, it is possible to create minimal output
which can be easily parsed and processed for further use. Some examples are:
List disk drives, temperature (in Celsius), health %, power on hours, disk model,
disk serial, size:
 hdsentinel -solid. Sample results:

  /dev/sda 42   3  4830 WDC_WD800JD-8LSA0   WD-WMAM9F937837   76324
  /dev/sdb 30 100  6128 ST3250624A          5ND3J94R         238472
  /dev/sdc 46 100 10982 WDC_WD2500JS-00MHB0 WD-WCANK8705209  238475
  /dev/sdd  ?   ?     ? GENERIC_CF_READER   9999                  0
  /dev/sde  ?   ?     ? GENERIC_SD_READER   9999               1963

List only temperature, drive, size:
 hdsentinel -solid | awk '{print , , }'

  42 /dev/sda 76324
  30 /dev/sdb 238472
  46 /dev/sdc 238475
  ? /dev/sdd 0
  ? /dev/sde 1963

List only temperature, drive, model ID, highest temperature on top, drives without
temperature information (for example card readers) removed:
 hdsentinel -solid | awk '{print , , }' | grep -v "^?" | sort -nr

  46 /dev/sdc WDC_WD2500JS-00MHB0
  42 /dev/sda WDC_WD800JD-8LSA0
  30 /dev/sdb ST3250624A

List only health, temperature, drive, lowest health on top, drives without temperature
information (for example card readers) removed:
 hdsentinel -solid | awk '{print , , }' | grep -v "^?" | sort -n

  3 42 /dev/sda
  100 30 /dev/sdb
  100 46 /dev/sdc

Note that the spaces in hard disk model ID and serial number are replaced with underscore (_).


