Samsung Magician

krzemien · 01 Oct 2021

AddRAM said:

My 980 Pro will be here Sunday

Enjoy it. it's blissfully fast (I moved from 970 to 980 1.5 months ago).

Geneo · 01 Oct 2021

Stigg said:

The only useful thing I found it to do was upgrading your drive firmware.
But once your drive gets a bit older and the firmware updates stop, then I rarely even look at it.

Agree with you completely Stigg. Just bloatware but for the firmware check. Haven't had it installed for some time.

sygnus21 · 01 Oct 2021

Cliff S said:

Personally I feel they are adding too much bloat, and over complicating the UI,

Agree the app is becoming boated. I see the Help Center section, which thus far can be hidden, also features an Advertisement area Really? And yes, it is definitely busy now....

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EdTittel · 01 Oct 2021

Got the auto-notification this morning and update immediately. First time my PC has informed me about a new Magician release before you did @CliffS.
Thanks,
--Ed--

SuperIronOut · 02 Oct 2021

Anyone else with the 500GB 980 SSD NVMe having issues with the latest release of Magician? I'm not too fond of the new chat support features, although the rest of the UI looks gorgeous so I'd like to update, but sadly more than half the tabs say my device is unsupported. I had to rollback to 6.3.0.300 to be able to use the Over-Provisioning and Performance-Optimization features.

sygnus21 · 02 Oct 2021

You need to install the NVMe drivers for full compatibility with Magician.

Anyway, I don't have a 980 NVMe drive, but I do have a couple of 970 NVMe drives and all works here. I don't use Over-Provisioning, but the option is there.

SuperIronOut · 03 Oct 2021

sygnus21 said:

You need to install the NVMe drivers for full compatibility with Magician.

Anyway, I don't have a 980 NVMe drive, but I do have a couple of 970 NVMe drives and all works here. I don't use Over-Provisioning, but the option is there.

I haven't been able to find one for the standard 980 NVMe so I've just been using the native Windows driver. I heard that one could install the 970 driver for the 980 but I decided to just wait until Samsung released one. I know the 980 Pro has a driver that Samsung released, but I'm just not sure if it'd be compatible. When using V6.3 it says my firmware is up to date and it's recognized as NVMe using PCIe gen. 3 x 4. I'm using a B450 chipset and sadly I flashed my BIOS without realizing AMD had made vendors remove gen. 4 capability for the B450 chipset in later BIOS versions, but shouldn't Magician still work with gen. 3?

Geneo · 03 Oct 2021

Current Samsung nvme driver 3.3 does not support the 980, only the 980 Pro. I am guessing 3.3 is the end-of-the line of Samsung supplied nvme drivers.

sygnus21 · 04 Oct 2021

SuperIronOut said:

I haven't been able to find one for the standard 980 NVMe so I've just been using the native Windows driver.

Yeah, I just looked at the NVMe driver section and see the 980 isn't supported. I also looked at the 980 downloads section and see no drivers there so scratch my suggestion.

That said, I'd assume the Magician Software should still function without the drive seeing Magician is supported.

SuperIronOut said:

When using V6.3 it says my firmware is up to date and it's recognized as NVMe using PCIe gen. 3 x 4.

The latest Magician software version is 7.0.0.510 and can be downloaded here - 980 SSD | Consumer SSD | Samsung Semiconductor

Wisewiz · 04 Oct 2021

I've got five 870 EVOs running, and all of my try-outs of Magician persuaded me that I really don't need it at all.