User manual SAMSUNG SSD 250GO 850 EVO MZ-75E250B/EU

[. . . ] samsung Magician software is developed and distributed exclusively for owners of Samsung Solid Sate Drives (SSDs). New Features New Samsung Magician features a number of improvements over version 4. 7: - Completely re-designed and more intuitive user interface New Models support : Samsung SSD 960 PRO, 960 EVO System Compatibility guide SSD model specific feature installation system : only required feature components are installed and updated Revision2. 0 2 Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY Requirements and Support System Requirements Component Operating System Requirements Windows 7 (32/64bit) Windows 8 & 8. [. . . ] 9) If you are using any custom storage driver, then Magician may not work properly. Please always use the latest storage driver or Microsoft driver. 10)In Windows 7, the Samsung NVMe Driver is required for Magician to fully support Samsung’s NVMe device. performance Benchmark 1) Benchmarking results are for a Queue Depth of 32. 2) The numbers of threads used for performance benchmark are: 1 for Sequential and 4 for Random for NVMe device; 1 for Sequential and 1 for Random for SATA device. 3) Benchmarking may not work with some removable storage devices. 4) Performance Benchmark may get timed-out on ASMedia controllers if the driver does not handle multi thread operations (IOs) Revision2. 0 6 Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY General Limitations Firmware Update 1) PC will be shut down automatically after firmware update (Magician counts down 20 seconds before shutdown) 2) Firmware Update may fail on Samsung brand SSDs connected to AMD Controller or IRST v10. Please retry using default SATA AHCI controller(Microsoft drivers) Performance Optimization 1) Performance Optimization supports only the NTFS file system. 2) Performance Optimization will take more time to complete Performance improvement may depend on the user system environment, thus this process is recommended for the user who essentially needs performance optimization. performance Optimization is only supported in Samsung SSD 840 EVO and 840 Series model. 3) Windows may experience slow response while Performance Optimization is in progress, on ASUS Sabertooth 990FX system with AMD 1. Secure Erase 1) Secure Erase is not supported with NVMe device connected as primary disk. 2) For NVMe devices, Secure Erase may not work on systems where SECURITY FREEZE LOCK is issued by the BIOS and Microsoft NVMe driver is used. 3) Magician provides different way to erase disk depend on disk’s interface type. (SATA – DOS bootable solution) 4) While making a DOS bootable solution for Secure Erase, please make sure the Device Manager window is closed. *refer ‘DOS Utility Limitations’ Revision2. 0 7 Installation Guide SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY DOS Utility Limitations 1) In some of the PCs DOS Solution may not work properly as expected because of compatibility issue. 2) The DOS Utility is not compatible with pure SCSI or SATA NVIDIA/LSI/AMD chipset drivers. 3) AHCI or ATA mode must be enabled in the BIOS during PC boot up. 4) The DOS utility may not work consistently on PCs with chipsets other than the ones listed above. 5) The DOS Utility may hang if the SSD is removed on PCs that do not support the hot plug feature (e. [. . . ]  On the Start menu , click Run. ρ³ In the Open box, type “msiexec /unreg”. ρ³ On the Start menu, click Run  In the Open box, type “msiexec /regserver”. If RAPID mode does not enable, follow the steps below. [. . . ]