Samsung Magician v.4.5 Introduction and Installation Guide 2014.12 (Rev 1.
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Introduction The Samsung Magician software is designed to help users easily manage the health and performance of their Samsung SSD. In addition to providing vital SSD health status information, Magician will assist users in updating firmware, measuring performance, and optimizing the configuration of a Windows operating system installation. Samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for owners of Samsung Solid Sate Drives (SSDs). New in Version 4.5 Magician version 4.
System Requirements Component Requirements Windows XP SP2 (32bit) Operating System Windows Vista (32/64bit) Windows 7 (32/64bit) Windows 8 & 8.1 (32/64bit) Disk Capacity minimum 95MB available for installation Supported Partition Types MBR, GPT English, Korean, Spanish, Deutsch, Japanese, Chinese(Simplified), French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian The following Samsung SSDs are supported*: Samsung SSD 850 EVO Samsung SSD 850 PRO Samsung SSD 840 EVO(2.
Driver Support Chipset Intel AMD Driver Microsoft Supported Yes Intel Yes 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.
Magician to accurately reflect all connected/removed disks. 6) Benchmarking results are for a Queue Depth of 32. 7) It may be necessary to manually refresh the disk list in System Information before performing benchmarking or performance optimization on a newly attached disk. 8) The Performance Optimization feature relies on the ATA PASS THROUGH feature to pass the TRIM command to the SSD. This feature may be disabled by Windows XP/2003 if your SSD is less than 137GB in size.
DOS Utility Limitations 1) The DOS Utility is not compatible with pure SCSI or SATA NVIDIA/LSI/AMD chipset drivers. 2) AHCI or ATA mode must be enabled in the BIOS during PC boot up. 3) The DOS utility may not work consistently on PCs with chipsets other than the ones listed above. 4) The DOS Utility may hang if the SSD is removed on PCs that do not support the hot plug feature (e.g. ICH5/6 chipsets). 5) The DOS Utility will not work with devices attached via SATA 6Gbps (SATA III) operating in IDE mode.
system. Operational Check of RAPIDmode RAPIDmode starts its operation 45 seconds after OS booting. Please make sure the increased size of non-paged pool using “task manager → performance → memory tab” to ensure it is fully operational.
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