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Samsung Magician 6

Installation Guide

Revision 1.1

Summary of content (13 pages)

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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Samsung Magician 6 The software included in this product contains copyrighted software that is licensed under the GNU Lesser General License (LGPL), BSD, OpenSSL and MIT. Below is the list of components covered under LGPL. You may obtain the complete Corresponding Source code from us for a period of three years after our last shipment of this product by sending email to: oss.request@samsung.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Revision History Revision Number Description Revision Date 1.0 Initial Release Sep 2019 1.1 Changed the character (O → √, X → “”) in Supported Features by model Feb 2020 Revision1.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY 1. Introduction New Samsung Magician 6 Experience the new user-friendly GUI of Samsung Magician. Try our new features and enhanced functions for better user experience. Samsung Magician provides an integrated convenient solution for SSD with advanced capabilities. Samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for users of Samsung Solid Sate Drives (SSDs).
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY 2. Requirements and Support System Requirements Component Requirements Windows 7 (32/64bit) Windows 8 & 8.1 (32/64bit) Operating System Windows 10 (32/64bit) Disk Capacity minimum 95MB available for installation Supported Partition Types MBR, GPT English, Korean, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese(Simplified), French, Italian, Supported Languages Portuguese, Russian The following Samsung SSDs are supported*: Samsung SSD 970 PRO(M.2) Samsung SSD 970 EVO(M.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Supported Features by model There are some limitations that exist depending on the type of storage and model. Features Perfor mance Diagn RAPID Optimi ostic zation( Scan TRIM) Model Drive Info.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY RAPID mode Requirements Component Requirements Windows 7 (32/64bit) Windows 8 & 8.1 (32/64bit) Operating System Windows 10 (32/64bit) Samsung SSD 860 PRO Samsung SSD 860 EVO (2.5”, mSATA, M.2) Samsung SSD 860 QVO Samsung SSD 850 PRO SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO (2.5”, mSATA, M.2), Samsung SSD 850 Samsung SSD 840 PRO Samsung SSD 840 EVO (2.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY 1) Samsung Magician does not require internet connection to run. However, the internet connection is required to get updates for the latest Firmware, Feature modules or application and to authenticate the SSDs. 2) If you delete some files of New Samsung Magician without internet connection, some features like certification or configuration may not work properly and cause limitations in use of New Samsung Magician.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY 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.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Performance Optimization 1) Performance Optimization supports only the NTFS file system. 2) Magician does not support TRIM operation for Standard Performance Optimization on Windows 8 and above, as they support native TRIM. Instead, Magician provide a link to Microsoft Drive Optimizer. Diagnostic Scan 1) Short scan supports only the NTFS file system. 2) If the device is locked, both short scan and full scan are not supported.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Encrypted Drive 1) Class 0, TCG Opal and Encrypted Drive cannot be enabled simultaneously. Only one mode can be enabled at a time and all other modes must be disabled. 2) Security mode (Class 0, TCG/Opal or Encrypted Drive) must be disabled (unlocked) before removing and installing onto another PC. Over Provisioning 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 1) Over Provisioning only supports NTFS and raw (Unformatted) partitions.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY 4. RAPID mode Limitations 1) RAPID mode accelerates only one SSD even though user has several Samsung SSDs (860 QVO, 860 EVO, 860 PRO, 850 PRO, 850 EVO, 850, 750 EVO, 840 EVO, and 840 PRO regardless of form factor). 2) If there are two identical SSDs connected, RAPID mode may accelerate the incorrect SSD. 3) RAID Mode sets is not supported as an accelerated drive.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Operational Check of RAPID mode RAPID mode 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. * Before RAPID mode enabling * After RAPID mode enabling Revision1.
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Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Februry 2020 www.samsung.com/magician Design and contents of this manual are subject to change without notice. ©2019 Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Revision1.