Samsung Magician: worth installing?

Phil2008 · 7 May 2013 at 17:32

I have just ordered a pro 128gb ssd, and was just wondering is it worth installing the software? Im guessing I will have to install it for the firmware update anyhow?

wazza300 · 7 May 2013 at 17:38

you can install it if you want,i didn't use to optimise mine though

Dervious · 7 May 2013 at 19:11

Installing Magician takes all of about, 1 minute. If you don't like it, it can be uninstalled.

I always install it with a Samsung SSD, seems to not cause any problems and makes it easy to optimise the system settings, keep an eye on the SSD's health and to update the firmware (I`ve noticed that Samsung don't seem to put out as many updates as Crucial anyway).

Phil2008 · 7 May 2013 at 19:42

can you fully exit it, or is it always it the background?

wazza300 · 7 May 2013 at 19:44

you can exit it

Deleted member 2277 · 7 May 2013 at 21:38

Phil2008 said:
can you fully exit it, or is it always it the background?

You have to remove it from your startup folder

Dervious · 7 May 2013 at 22:13

It does "startup" in Startup.

Delete it from Startup if you don't want it in your tray.

Phil2008 · 7 May 2013 at 22:15

I think I will install it if I need to do a firmware update. Is their anyway of telling if the firmware is up to date without magician installed?

wazza300 · 7 May 2013 at 23:11

just look in intel storage driver console if you use those drivers or in ssdlife

Dervious · 8 May 2013 at 10:56

Phil2008 said:
I think I will install it if I need to do a firmware update. Is their anyway of telling if the firmware is up to date without magician installed?

Are you worried about installing the Magician software ?

I have read reports of a few problems with it, but I`ve never experienced any issues having carried out about 20 installs.

Phil2008 · 8 May 2013 at 11:29

Dervious said:
Are you worried about installing the Magician software ?

I have read reports of a few problems with it, but I`ve never experienced any issues having carried out about 20 installs.

I thought it was quite bloated, but its not bad at all, as Ive just installed it. Most of the options are grayed out atm as the sammy isnt installed yet.

Dervious · 8 May 2013 at 13:18

Phil2008 said:
I thought it was quite bloated, but its not bad at all, as Ive just installed it. Most of the options are grayed out atm as the sammy isnt installed yet.

Never really looked to see how much space it takes up, but I wouldn't have thought it was much, judging by what it does and how long it takes to install (OK, most things install quickly on an SSD, but it really is a quick process).

Just checked, about 41MB on this PC..... nothing to worry about.

If you enable over provisioning within Magician, you'll lose about 10% of your capacity. Over provisioning is supposed to help extend the life of the SSD and maybe maintain performance. I`ve read that it's not really worth enabling for the average home user, but I usually do it anyway. If you need the space back, it's easy to disable.

Having said that, for the second time, I'm currently having trouble enabling OP on this SSD that I'm installing in a Toshiba laptop. Having cloned the HDD to the SSD, and done a bit of partition size adjustment, Magician won't let me setup OP. :confused:

mickyflinn · 15 May 2013 at 20:34

Does updating the firmware on the 840 erase all data ?

Phil2008 · 15 May 2013 at 21:06

mickyflinn said:
Does updating the firmware on the 840 erase all data ?

No all data will still be on the drive, its just like updating the bios on your motherboard.

mickyflinn · 15 May 2013 at 21:09

Phil2008 said:
No all data will still be on the drive, its just like updating the bios on your motherboard.

TX phil

Samsung Magician: worth installing?

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