Samsung Magician Software | Samsung Semiconductor USA

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 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. Microsoft provides a hot fix for this issue at https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com.

9. Secure Erase is not supported for Windows 8 and 8.1 systems.

10.  Performance Optimization supports only the NTFS file system.

11.  Over Provisioning may fail, even though enough free space is available, if your system suffers from cluster misalignment.

12.  Benchmarking may not work with some removable storage devices.

13.  If the User cannot span or shrink volume size through disk management of the OS administration tool, it is possible not to work Dynamic over-provisioning properly.

14.  When the IRST driver is enabled / Installed in the system. Then enabling of Write cache buffer/flushing in SSD may fail (OS Optimization).

* Also, when a specific or latest IRST driver (IRST 12.6.0.1033, 12.8.10.1005) is installed, the authentication function may not work correctly. In this case, rollback to the older version.

15.  RAID on the mode in SATA configuration is not supported by Samsung magician and the DOS application.

16.  PC will be shut down automatically after the firmware update (Magician counts down 20 seconds before shutdown)

17.  Security mode(Class 0, TCG/Opal or Encrypted Drive) must be disabled(unlocked) before removing and installing onto another PC.

18.  Firmware Update may fail on Samsung brand SSDs connected to AMD Controller. Please retry using the default data ahci controller(Microsoft drivers)

19.  Performance Benchmark may get timed-out on Asmedia controllers if the driver does not handle multi thread operations (IOs)”

20.  Always use the latest storage drivers. If a user is using any custom storage driver, then Magician may not function properly

21.  Magician will only retain the power option that was tuned before installing Magician. If a user changes the power option after installation, Magician cannot retain that.

For more details, please refer to the Magician installation guide.
– https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/tools/