Samsung Magician

f14tomcat · 08 Apr 2019

Cliff S said:

You can use Magician, just not the RAPID mode.

But ROG's RAMCACHE II works a lot better than RAPID any how.

Not this crazy Dell OEM SSD. Wish I could.

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Cliff S · 08 Apr 2019

f14tomcat said:

Not this crazy Dell OEM SSD. Wish I could.

Ok, get it now.

Snakeyes · 08 Apr 2019

Cliff S said:

You can use Magician, just not the RAPID mode.

But ROG's RAMCACHE II works a lot better than RAPID any how.

Could you please give a little more information about how you are using RAMCACHE II. Can you use it on the Samsung 960 Evo M 2?Thanks

Cliff S · 08 Apr 2019

Snakeyes said:

Could you please give a little more information about how you are using RAMCACHE II. Can you use it on the Samsung 960 Evo M 2?Thanks

Samsung Magician Solved - Page 98 - Windows 10 Forums

I let it select what it wants to cache, but gave it 16GB RAM to use(I have 32GB)

I only used it for about a week, but like RAPID noticed no real benefit in daily stuff, except that my VMs started fasted, and were snappier, but some of my benchmarking programs didn't care for it, they ran, but some scores were even lower than without it.

Kbird · 08 Apr 2019

Cliff S said:

Samsung Magician Solved - Page 98 - Windows 10 Forums
I let it select what it wants to cache, but gave it 16GB RAM to use(I have 32GB)
I only used it for about a week, but like RAPID noticed no real benefit in daily stuff, except that my VMs started fasted, and were snappier, but some of my benchmarking programs didn't care for it, they ran, but some scores were even lower than without it.

You could try out AMD's RamDisk ...it is free for your use upto 4GB , so far for me it has caused no issues unlike some of the other RamDisk I've tried.

AMD Radeon(TM) RAMDisk

AMD Radeon RAMDisk - Support - FAQs - Getting Started

CountMike · 08 Apr 2019

Kbird said:

You could try out AMD's RamDisk ...it is free for your use upto 4GB , so far for me it has caused no issues unlike some of the other RamDisk I've tried.

AMD Radeon(TM) RAMDisk

AMD Radeon RAMDisk - Support - FAQs - Getting Started

Snakeyes · 08 Apr 2019

Thanks Cliff S, Kbird and CountMike. I have played with RAM disks in the distant past, but got lazy once SSD's started to dominate the marketplace. Even though all my builds have used ROG motherboards, and somehow I never ran across the RAMCACHE and was curious regarding it. Might play with it for the heck of it. I have 2 SSD's and one of them can utilize the rapid mode, but I found no difference in normal use and slight delays in reboot so I disabled rapid mode and haven't used it for a while. As always, appreciate the information and education.

swarfega · 08 Apr 2019

If you are unable to download it from Samsung, get it from Majorgeeks.

EdTittel · 09 Apr 2019

Just got a Lenovo X1 Carbon Extreme with 2 (1.0 TB & 500 GB) Samsung NVMe drives. Alas, they're not supported in Magician:

It's identified as a PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1 TB drive. Runs really fast, but doesn't work with Magician. I'm guessing it's because this is strictly (or mostly) an OEM part. Anybody know more than that?
Thanks!
--Ed--

Cliff S · 09 Apr 2019

EdTittel said:

Just got a Lenovo X1 Carbon Extreme with 2 (1.0 TB & 500 GB) Samsung NVMe drives. Alas, they're not supported in Magician:

It's identified as a PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1 TB drive. Runs really fast, but doesn't work with Magician. I'm guessing it's because this is strictly (or mostly) an OEM part. Anybody know more than that?
Thanks!
--Ed--

That's correct, it's because it's an OEM/system builders SSD.

Yolu can still install and use the NVMe samsung driver though at least.