Magician Software User Manual

Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY
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3. General Limitations
Overall
1) Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface.
2) Only MBR and GPT partition types are supported. Magician may not work with other partition
types.
3) Magician shows only volumes mounted with letter.
4) Magician will not work on SSDs that are locked with a user password.
5) The user may need to manually refresh for Magician to accurately reflect all connected/removed
disks.
6) RAID on mode in SATA configuration is not supported by Samsung Magician and USB bootable
solution.
7) If you are using any custom storage driver, then Magician may not work properly. Please always
use the latest storage driver or Microsoft driver.
8) In Windows 7, the Samsung NVMe Driver is required for Magician to fully support Samsung’s NVMe
device.
9) Users in European(GDPR) country can find Personal information for GDPR notice in Magician Help.
However, if user installed Magician with selection of non-GDPR country member, GDPR notice
can’t be shown. In this case, try reinstall Magician.
10) In Windows 7, the GUI of the Samsung Magician application may not seem normal intermittently.
11) In the case of the function where the progress time is displayed – Performance benchmark,
Diagnostic scan, and Performance optimization, changing the system time during the function
execution may cause the elapsed time to not appear normally.
Performance Benchmark
1) Benchmarking results are for a Queue Depth of 32.
2) The numbers of threads used for performance benchmark are: 1 for Sequential and 4 for Random
for NVMe device; 1 for Sequential and 1 for Random for SATA device.
3) Benchmarking may not work with some removable storage devices.
4) Performance Benchmark may get timed-out on ASMedia controllers if the driver does not handle
multi thread operations (IOs)