User Guide

2014.12 (Rev 1.4)

Driver Support

Chipset Driver Supported

Intel Microsoft Yes

Intel Yes

AMD Microsoft Yes

AMD Yes(With Latest Driver)

NVIDIA Yes

Precautions

1) The SSD should not be removed or disconnected while SSD Optimization

or Benchmarking are in progress. Doing so could result in data corruption.

2) All parallel operations should be terminated before executing the SSD

Optimization or Benchmarking features.

3) Data corruption may result if the user terminates the Magician application

abnormally while SSD Optimization, Benchmarking, FW Update, or Secure

Erase features are in progress.

4) Using the Performance Optimization feature in Magician does not guarantee

performance improvement. Performance Optimization can only improve

performance issues related to capacity usage and fragmentation.

5) There is always the risk of data loss when updating SSD firmware. It is imperative that

the user backs up any important data before performing a firmware update either

via Magician or via the Magician DOS Utility.

6) The SSD may be permanently damaged if it is unplugged while the firmware update

process is in progress via the DOS Utility.

General Limitations

1) Magician is designed specifically for Samsung-branded SSDs. SSD-specific features

like Firmware Update, Disk Health Status, Secure Erase, and Total Bytes Written are

not supported for non-Samsung SSDs.

2) Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface.

3) Only MBR and GPT partition types are supported. Magician may not work with other

partition types.

4) Magician will not work on SSDs that are locked with a user password.

5) The user may need to manually refresh the disk list in System Information for