Let Samsung Magician optimize SSD?

[HAVOC]

I installed Samsung Magician to see if my SSD firmware was up to date. It is.
It's telling me that my OS is currently optimized for use with a HDD.

 

[fireberd]

I have Samsung 850 EVO but I don't use their optimization as my PC is used for my recording studio and I have it manually optimized for recording. I tried it and one thing it did was change my "Power Plan" to something I didn't want. I had to manually reset it.

If not doing anything specifically that the Magician would interfere with, I say use it.

 

[Dolke]

I have SAMSUNG 850 pro version and I just recently cloned my windows 7 partition on to this new SSD using their own software.

Cloning went smootly and I was able to boot in Windows from the SSD right away. Even driver letters remaind C as it was on the old HDD.

What I didint do is used that software to optimize OS. Honestly Im afraid that it will mess up some fine tuned settings in the OS...or Im just being paranoid...

 

[AddRAM]

Some of the settings it changes you may not want changed, it`s best to go over each setting manually.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yea I used maximum reliability and about all it did was create a new power plan that I tweaked a little bit
All the cache... stuff is already recommended to disable so I don't see why doing it manually or through magician is a big deal
As you can see you can re-enable anything in advanced if you start having issues.

 

[Ranger4]

HAVOC, have you got the Samsung Magician SSD manual, if not you can download one from this Samsung website. Once you have done that you can read through it & decide on what settings might suit you best.

Samsung SSD Downloads | Samsung SSD

If you need more help get back. I have a Samsung 840 Pro that has been running for a few years now & I have it set up as User Defined.

 

[HAVOC]

I never even opened the envelope that was in the SSD box. I downloaded Magician from the website. I can't find the SSD manual on the website so I'll look on the disc.

 

[Dolke]

Has somebody deleted my previous post in this thread? :shock:

 

[HAVOC]

Nothing on the disc. Just warranty info, and install info for the SSD and Data Migration stuff.

 

[Dolke]

Is this what you are looking for:

http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...re/Samsung_Magician_45_Installation_Guide.pdf

 

[Ranger4]

It seems that Samsung no longer have the user manual that was available when I bought mine.

You could select one of the options on your screen shot, such as Maximum Reliability or one of the others. This will probably require the system to reboot to make the change.

Is your system set for AHCI & is the Trim set up correctly.

 

[HAVOC]

AHCI is on and TRIM is enabled.

 

[HAVOC]

I chose maximum reliability. I ran a performance test after restarting the computer.

 

[ThrashZone]

That doesn't look very good havoc what happened did you update the firmware first ?
Could be because it's 1tb :/

 

[Ranger4]

Have you run the Performance Optimisation Feature as mentioned in the screen shot of your Post #13.

You can also run the Over Provisioning, which will utilise a percentage of your disc for garbage removal & other tasks, that prolong the life of the SSD.

 

[ThrashZone]

lol
His over provisioning
Did you see his disk
Using 340gb of a 954gb drive so his Over provisioning is 614gbs :roflmao:

Which might be why his read and write is way down
10-20% of used space is plenty or go 100gbs over usage.

 

[Ranger4]

Not quite sure what you mean there Thrash. This is a screen shot of my Over Provisioning.

 

[ThrashZone]

Over provisioning is simply available space on the disk it does not have to be a set amount unless the disk is near full.
If the disk is full which is common if people use a smaller 120gb... ssd and is using 110gbs.. on it then using a set amount will insure only the sdd's firmware will use that amount for OP.

If you look at your disk size in disk management I wouldn't be surprised if it shows less that amount you set for or magician allotted for OP.

My point was Havoc's disk is large and C partition is way too big.

 

[HAVOC]

I ran the performance monitor again after the optimization.
Below is what my provisioning shows.

 

[ThrashZone]

1tb ssd's might be different I did not use provisioning and my bench was about the same.