
Magician Samsung Samsung Magician ver 4.0 SSD SSD Optimization windows 8
– Secure Erase is not supported for Windows 8 systems. Magician may not work with other partition types. – Only MBR and GPT partition types are supported. Note – SSD will not be recognized if it is part of a RAID array – Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface.– SSD Authentication feature to verify your SSD is a genuine Samsung product.(From 840 and 840 PRO Series)
– Re-designed OS Optimization featuring three common user profiles and detailed explanations of each configuration option. – At-a-glance system configuration information, including SATA interface and AHCI support. – Simple, graphical indication of drive health status and Total Bytes Written.
Improvements & Modifications – Completely redesigned User Interface and User Experience. The summary of changes in Samsung Magician ver 4.0 directly from Samsung’s website: This only works for the 840 Series SSDs, however. If you don’t want to use a pre-set, there is the Advanced tab where you can tweak OS settings manually.Īnother addition, although less helpful, is the SSD Authentication screen. There are now three pre-sets to choose from, eliminating the guess work of OS optimization for Samsung SSDs. This is the OS Optimization screen, and is one of the biggest changes besides the UI. The “eye candy” has been turned up and all critical information is in one spot. Besides Windows 8 compatibility, other major changes include three pre-sets under OS Optimization, a Samsung Authentication screen, and a completely revised (and far more attractive) user interface. When attempting to install the prior version of Magician software Windows 8 users were presented with a “This is a known incompatible program” message. The last version of the Magician software was 3.2 and supported up to Windows 7. One of the biggest boons to owning a Samsung SSD is Samsung’s attention to detail, as evidenced by this extremely useful SSD optimization/tuning and management tool. Samsung has released a major overhaul of their Magician SSD software, bringing the software to version 4.0.