Windows 10: Samsung Magician

To a human?
In normal day to day use(no huge file transfers from one Samsung M.2 to another?

None, but I use the correct tool for the correct job*Wink

Intel IRST drivers do the job too, actually.(I have tried and tested)

 

If you feel like experimenting.....Sysinternals from MS: Contig - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs

 

That's weird. Carried over perfectly for me. Did an upgrade install.

 

Hi,

Benchmarking results are most impressive using Samsung's latest NVMe drivers.
Real life performance is quite good too as I feel Samsung's SSDS perform better than most other brands anyhow except for Intel's latest Optane based drives which don't deliver such impressive benchmarks but have incredibly low latency and that's what's matters most in dayly use.

Cheers, *Wink

 

What about rapid mode???

 

I do not see any difference with it removed.

 

Wow! That's interesting. Mine shows quite a bit of difference. Well, all machines are different. If an app isn't giving you anything, there's no need to have it running. Btw, the one thing that really bothers me about Magician is that it can only optimize one drive. In this day and age, I would think a tech giant like Samsung would have gotten past that limitation. I have several Samsung ssd's in my system, and it would be nice to have all of them optimized by this software.

 

It can optimize all SSD's but Rapid Mode will only work on the SSD with Windows 10 or your OS on it.

 

Yeah, I miss-typed when I used the word "optimize". That is NOT what I meant. I meant the use of rapid mode to optimize performance. Not the Win10 optimization. And not trying to give you crap, but your statement about rapid mode is not correct as well. Rapid mode will work with a non-system disk. I have it working right now on one of my older ssd's, a non-system 1TB Samsung 840 EVO, split into two partitions. Here's a screenshot of it:

 

I have two ssd's a 256Gb Samsung 850 Pro and a Samsung 850 500Gb EVO SSD and Rapid mode using Magician 5.2 will NOT let the 500Gb drive use Rapid Mode. It may well work on a Single SSD that is portioned with an 840. I do not use that mode.

 

I just re installed SM and here is the proof:









As you can see Rapid mode will not work on the 500Gb drive.

 

I'd try looking back over the settings, or talking to Sammie about it, as Rapid mode should work on that 500GB drive. Unless there's something screwed up in the settings, it should run that EVO with no problem. That's why I use it on my oldest drive, to keep overall performance high. Once before Rapid mode would not work for me, and I deleted Magician software using Revo software, and all of its leftovers, and then reloaded it straight from their website and it worked after that. You might try giving that a go. Hope it all works out. Cheers!

 

Well, if you have Rapid mode "ON" for the 256gb, it will not work on another driver at the same time. Or am I misunderstanding, and you turned it off of the 256gb BEFORE trying to load it on the 500gb?

 

It never worked , when both Drives were brand new Rapid Mode would not work, when I had a 250 Gb EVO installed in place of the 500 Gb drive it also would not work.

 

That is what I am saying.

It would be counter productive to have it on a drive that is NOT your system drive.