The Samsung Magician SSD management utility has been updated.
Version 5 brings a new interface. It also removes the ability to manually run trim (even under Windows 7).
The main download page is here.
Major Geeks download: Major Geeks – Samsung SSD Magician 5.0.0
New Samsung Magician
Samsung Magician software, up until the version 4.9.7, has been an end-user application with a collection of features to help manage Samsung branded SSDs. With New Samsung Magician, it is aimed at providing a better user experience with a new GUI, feature-level update schemes. Samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for owners of Samsung Solid Sate Drives (SSDs).
New Features
New Samsung Magician features a number of improvements over version 4.9.7:
– Completely re-designed and more intuitive user interface
– New Models support : Samsung SSD 960 PRO, 960 EVO
– System Compatibility guide
– SSD model specific feature installation system : only required feature components are
installed and updated.
why would anyone use this except novice.
IMO its buggy and not needed, though I have not tried ver5 but I don’t see anything really it gives.
I never thought too highly of that: https://www.tweakhound.com/2015/12/09/tweaking-windows-10/11/
right, my comments were not directed at you, but general opinion 🙂
5.0 won’t work with either of my EVO mSATA 850 1Tb .
I will check mine tomorrow.
I just checked my laptop. It has dual 850’s. One is a 1TB standard and one is a 250GB M2. Both are detected fine.
Eric I upgraded to SM 5 but i can still run trim manually via the drive optimization in win 10, also the new magician doesnt have any options its just info.. I have 10% OP set from last magician and now in the new one there isnt options for it.. Do we even need OP anymore? ALSO on the samaung website there is a new firmware for my 850 pro but the magician detects that my firmware is up to date…
Over provisioning – This is my IMHO. I could be wrong. It is my understanding that newer Sammy SSDs have OP built-in. At various times I tried OP and found no difference in my daily use. (Benchmarks showed a lot of difference.) Obviously Samsung doesn’t think you need it either as it is gone under the new Magician.
Firmware – It says “Enable hardware support for large capacity SSD(4TB)” Sammy will release this drive at CES.
Thanks for the reply. I guess I’ll downgrade to the 4.9 magician, disable the OP then upgrade the magician again..
Just a heads up: Overprovisioning maintains performance and extends life expectancy on SSDs. It does not increase performance. It’s about keeping your SSD healthy. I would highly suggest that you keep SM 5, and keep OP. Here is a link that goes into great detail about OP and why it’s awesome: http://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/overprovisioning
strangely on my PC, 850 pro 512GB not supported with magician 5. with 4.9.7 it works fine.
I just upgraded the firmware on my drive and it now says the same thing. Any body got a solution