The Samsung Magician software is designed to help users easily monitor the health and maximize the performance of their Samsung SSD. From the main screen, users can check the condition of their drives and view information like the temperature, total and available capacities and the total bytes written.
Magician also provides detailed information about each drive. In addition to the drive health and temperature, this screen shows the serial number, interface speed, firmware version and whether or not AHCI mode is activated. You can even see which volumes are on the drive and how much of the total capacity they are using.
Samsung's Magician software can also be used to benchmark the performance of a storage device. Looking at the screenshot below, you can see that it tests the sequential and random read and write performance of a drive. Users can also compare these scores with past results to maintain the highest performance possible.
Using Magician, users can also do a diagnostic scan to find and fix any errors and optimize the performance and lifespan of their SSD by setting aside extra free space.
Magician also gives users the ability to improve the performance of their drive by forcing TRIM to run. In addition to this, users can enable RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O Data) mode to accelerate their drive's performance through DRAM caching.
When enabled, RAPID mode is inserted as a filter driver in the Windows storage stack. The driver actively monitors all storage-related activity between and among the operating system, user applications and the SSD. The RAPID technology analyzes system traffic and leverages spare system resources (DRAM and CPU) to deliver read acceleration through intelligent caching of hot data and write optimization through tight coordination with the SSD.
Samsung 870 EVO 1TB with RAPID
 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB |
 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB with RAPID |
 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB |
 Samsung 870 EVO 1TB with RAPID |
Samsung's Magician software also includes a number of data management features. Along with the ability to permanently delete sensitive data, it can unlock and reset your drive to its factory setting by entering the 32-character PSID password printed on the drive label. Last, but not least, Magician gives you the ability to activate Encrypted Drive to protect private and sensitive data. The software lets you review your drive’s current security settings and helps you with the setup process.
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