Magician - Limitations
Does Samsung Magician have any limitations Pt1
- 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.
- Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface.
- Only MBR and GPT partition types are supported. Magician may not work with other partition types.
- Magician will not work on SSDs that are locked with a user password.
- The user may need to manually refresh the disk list in System Information for Magician to accurately reflect all connected/removed disks.
- Benchmarking results are for a Queue Depth of 32.
- It may be necessary to manually refresh the disk list in System Information before performing benchmarking or performance optimization on a newly attached disk.
- Some features of Magician rely 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 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934205.
- Secure Erase is not supported for Windows 8 and 8.1 systems.
- Performance Optimization supports only the NTFS file system.
- Over Provisioning may fail, even though enough free space is available, if your system suffers from cluster misalignment.
- Benchmarking may not work with some removable storage devices.
- If User cannot span or shrink volume size through disk management of OS administration tool, it is possible not to work dynamic over-provisioning properly.
- When the IRST driver is enabled / Installed in 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.
- RAID on mode in SATA configuration is not supported by Samsung magician and DOS application.
- PC will be shut down automatically after firmware update (Magician counts down 20 seconds before shutdown)
- Security mode (Class 0, TCG/Opal or Encrypted Drive) must be disabled (unlocked) before removing and installing onto another PC.
- Firmware Update may fail on Samsung brand SSDs connected to AMD Controller or IRST v10.0.0.1046. Please retry using default sata ahci controller(Microsoft drivers)
- Performance Benchmark may get timed-out on Asmedia controllers if the driver does not handle multi thread operations (IOs)”
- Magician will only retain the power option that was tuned before installing Magician. If user changes the power option after installation, SAMSUNG SECRET Magician cannot retain that.
- If you are using any custom storage driver, then Magician may not work properly. Please always use the latest storage driver or Microsoft driver.
- While making a DOS bootable solution for Secure Erase or Firmware Update, please make sure the Device Manager window is closed.
- As Windows® 8.1 onwards doesn’t support the ‘Windows Backup’ service and automatic backups, the System Restore Service in OS Optimization doesn’t have any effect on Windows® 8.1 onwards
- If you delete some files on RAPID folder, RAPID may not be uninstalled properly.
- Magician has to be refreshed to detect a SSD, if the device is connected after launching the application.
- Advanced Performance Optimization will take more time to complete Performance improvement may depend on the user system environment, thus this process is recommended for the user who essentially needs performance optimization. Advanced Performance Optimization of Magician 4.6 is only supported in Samsung SSD 840 EVO 2.5” model.
- TRIM operation for Performance Optimization (Standard/Advanced) is not supported on Windows 8 and above, as they support Native TRIM.
- Windows may experience slow response while Advanced Performance Optimization is in progress, on ASUS Sabertooth 990FX system with AMD 1.2.1.269 driver.
- In Windows 7, you must install the Samsung NVMe Driver to use the functions of Samsung’s NVMe devices properly.