Windows 10: Samsung Magician

I am currently using a samsung 840 pro for my OS (win 10) drive. I want to buy a second ssd (850 evo) to use as a secondary
drive. Will Magician show me the S.M.A.R.T. status of the second samsung SSD as well, or only the main ssd?

 

Yes, it will show you smart values for all your Samsung SSDs.

 

Thanks, I just noticed that sorry

 

No reason to be sorry. It was a good question.

 

i kept getting sound distortion in the speakers even though i have an excellent sound card ; sound blaster z (works for me).
then i uninstalled it and it was gone. i would say that, until samsung and everything can catch up to windows 10. i wouldn't use samsung magician since it can terribly damage your system since it kept eating the sound out of my speakers. and it kept asking to restart after i rebooted the computer (samsung magician has stopped working click ok to restart the application or cancel to quit. and everytime i clicked ok it would kinda hang in the system creating this bsod imminent distability. OP (over provisioning) will still work since its already enabled on the ssd's from before samsung didnt support windows 10. i wouldnt go as far to enable rapid mode via a breaker method since by my head that sound kinda that it would damage the system even more.

 

Just a quick point of clarification for @Cliff.

Are you using a 850 EVO and are you currently using any version of Samsung Magician on your Win 10 rig.

If I read this right, you are using an 850 EVO but you are not using Magician.

 

Sorry, did you mean me? I have 840 Pros and I have version 4.7 on both machines. See my post here. If you meant another Cliff, oooops then*Redface.

 

No, no. You're the Cliff I meant.

Thank you.

I just bought a 850 EVO. Planning to mess with it over the weekend, and taken in aggregate across this thread your posts seem like the most reasonable way forward . So just wanted to clarify.

Your recommendation is to use Magician 4.7, but to use Windows for performance optimization and forget about RAPID?

Sounds good. Thank you.

 

For now yes, later if they make RAPID available to Win10, then I feel it's a user choice. The thing is now that I've been "forced!" to go without it,, I haven't noticed a difference in day to day use. Basically after I clean installed on my SSD, I ran winsat formal in an admin command prompt, let it finish, rebooted and let Windows take care of all the settings(prefetch & superfetch, indexing and other things). I now have Magician basically for "Firmware"updates only, not gimmics.

 

I recently upgraded my computer as per my profile, and it already screams along. I can't wait to see what it will do when Samsung gets the chit together and makes RAPID Win10 compatible.

 

I installed the 850 EVO relatively painlessly. I have pretty good read and write speeds, but I am concerned that it says I do not have ACHI enabled.

What gives?

 

I have the same SSD and Magician tells me the same even the bios says I have ACHI enabled, but computers says no.

 

FWIW ... S-M changed its status message this morning from "You have the latest version" to "Connect to the internet to upgrade to the latest version" .. another muck up ? I AM connected .. all the time !
Their support site still carries version 4.7 ... ???

 

I am also seeing that now.

 

I just picked up a firmware update for my 850 EVO the other day via SM, posted about it in another thread. Could it be that you guys are being alerted to, rather than an SM update?