Samsung Magician is a proprietary utility for working with SSD drives from a Korean manufacturer. It includes a performance testing tool, and also provides the user with a number of other extremely useful functions. This program can even “overclock” some models of solid-state drives, allowing you to increase read and data speeds by 15-20%. Unfortunately, the application does not work with all SSD series. The list of supported ones includes: 840, 830, 470, 840 EVO and 840 PRO.

Among other features of Samsung Magician, we can highlight the function of assessing the “health” of disks, collecting detailed technical information about drives, displaying S.M.A.R.T data, and so on. The program can also “force” the drive to operate in one of three modes: “maximum performance”, “maximum capacity” and “maximum reliability”. Their names, in general, speak for themselves. Samsung Magician can also operate in “RAPID” mode, allowing you to allocate up to 1 GB of RAM for storing “temporary” data when performing operations with an SSD. This makes SSDs even faster. You can enable "RAPID" mode only on Samsung 840 EVO and 840 PRO.

It is not recommended to use Samsung Magician on models that are not officially supported by the program. But if you do decide to take such a step, the program will only offer you the S.M.A.R.T “reading” functions and a performance test tool, other tools will not be available. Samsung Magician is completely free and translated into Russian.

Key Features and Functions

• Designed to work with certain series of Samsung SSDs;
• contains tools for checking the speed and overclocking of SSDs;
• can switch drives to “maximum performance”, “maximum capacity” and “maximum reliability” modes;
• allows you to allocate up to 1 GB of RAM for storing temporary data, thereby further increasing the speed of file operations;
• displays S.M.A.R.T data.

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Checking an SSD disk using utilities is a universal method that performs several tasks at once.

• First – checking the drive for errors.
• Second – monitoring the operational life of the device.

The presence and periodic use of such programs is not only desirable for the owner, but also necessary.

After all, the resources of these components of modern PCs and laptops are limited compared to HDDs, and the danger of data loss is higher.

Although these disadvantages are fully compensated by a significant number of advantages from using SSDs, due to the difference in their design from standard hard drives.

Features of using SSD drives

SSD drives are solid-state, non-volatile drives whose operating principle is similar to that of flash memory - SD and microSD cards, USB flash drives and other storage media.

Such devices have no moving parts, and use a DDR DRAM chip to transmit data.

Parallel recording of information simultaneously onto several memory elements and the absence of the need to move the heads that read information (typical of HDDs) allows you to increase the speed of the process several times.

And, if the average read speed of a modern hard drive is about 60 MB/s, even an average SSD drive can deliver 4-5 times higher performance.

When recording data, the excess may be smaller, but the process is still much faster.

Rice. 1. Comparison of read and write speeds of SSD and HDD disks.

Loading speed is of particular importance for those computers on which several resource-intensive applications are installed.

In this case, only the Windows system boots up within 15–20 s for a solid-state drive and from 30 to 60 s for a hard drive.

The same speed improvement occurs in the process of launching programs and recording data.

Other advantages of using SSD drives (read more) include:

• resistance to shocks and falls. A parameter that is important for laptops, the hard drives of which often fail due to mechanical damage;
• compactness - many disks are not much larger in size than a mobile phone battery, others have the dimensions of a memory stick;
• extended temperature range of disk operation;
• minimal energy consumption and no noise during operation.

Rice. 2. Comparison of HDD sizes, standard SSD and mSATA drive.

However, the operation of SSDs also comes with certain disadvantages. These include the relatively high cost of the drive, although as the capacity increases, the price-to-volume ratio becomes smaller.

The second important disadvantage is the limited resource of SSD drives, which is why it is recommended to check them periodically.

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Drive diagnostics

The main task of checking SSD disks is to diagnose its condition and provide information about the presence of errors, resource and expected operational life.

This allows the user to know in advance about future problems with the drive, leading to unpredictable loss of information.

In addition, based on the results of the check, you can plan financial expenses for the purchase, the cost of which may not allow you to quickly find such an amount if the problem arose unexpectedly.

In addition, checking the drive does not take much time and does not even require the purchase of expensive software.

Utilities can be downloaded online for free or purchased for an amount not exceeding the cost of a standard antivirus program.

While it is impossible to recover lost information from SSDs, unlike hard drives.

The best utilities for checking SSD drives

To check the status of the hard drive, drive manufacturers and third-party developers have already released dozens of applications.

Most of them are free or shareware, that is, requiring payment only some time after the start of use.

Their effectiveness is almost the same, but the differences lie in ease of use and functionality.

SSD Life

SSD Ready

When checking the status of an SSD drive, you can use the SSDReady application, which only works with solid-state drives. The result of the check is an estimate of the expected operating time of the device based on the collected statistics on writing and reading data. The program runs in the background and requires virtually no resources.

Rice. 6. SSDReady application.

Hard Disk Sentinel

A feature of the Hard Disk Sentinel application, designed to monitor hard drives, is to monitor performance degradation or exceed the permissible temperature level and report this to the user. The application constantly checks the information transfer speed, temperature conditions and other parameters. Among its features:

• work with SSD drives, IDE and SATA drives, and even USB drives;
• displaying information about the current and minimum temperature;
• indication of the number of errors and disk operating hours in hours;
• indication of not only the current, but also the maximum possible information transfer mode for the disk.

Rice. 7. Working with the Hard Disk Sentinel program.

HDDScan

The freely available HDDScan program allows you to diagnose hard drives of any type, check them for errors and monitor the “health” of the drives. The utility works in real time and, if necessary, displays a detailed report on the status of the disk, which can be saved for future use.

Rice. 8. HDDScan program report.

SSD Tweaker

The free SSD Tweaker application is easy to use and allows the user not only to monitor the status of solid-state drives, but also to disable unnecessary operations in the operating system that reduce the service life of the disk. For example, such as the Windows Indexing and Defragmentation Service. Settings can be configured manually or automatically.

Rice. 9. Working window of the SSD Tweaker program.

HD Tune

The HD Tune application is available in several versions - a free version and a paid HD Tune Pro. The first provides testing of the status of hard drives (including SSDs) and memory cards. The shareware utility, for which you will have to pay $38, has expanded functionality, allowing you to control almost all disk parameters and conduct a number of additional tests.

Rice. 10. Diagnostics using HD Tune Pro.

Regardless of the program you choose to diagnose your SSD drive, at least one of them must be installed on your computer (or run from time to time if installation on a working PC is impossible).

At the same time, if the drive does not contain too important information, the frequency of checking can be changed by setting, for example, diagnostics not every 4 hours, but once a day. Moreover, despite the greater level of reliability of HDDs, using most of the same applications you can periodically monitor their condition, increasing the security of data storage.

To be honest, the interface of the proprietary utility is not very clear, and in the process of studying the settings, I was often not sure what would happen after pressing the magic button. To begin with, in accordance with the vectors of discussion in the comments, I would formulate these configurations more simply:

• Speed
• Space saving
• Life extension

This is exactly what the categories are titled in the summary table, where, along with a clear representation of Samsung configurations, I added standard Windows settings and my recommendations.

Individual optimization parameters

Let's look at the optimization parameters in the same order as the previous myths.

SuperFetch

Meanwhile, if there is a HDD in the system, Windows does not disable the service, applying logical prefetching to launch applications from all disks. If you don't run programs from the HDD, SuperFetch won't do anything for you, but disabling the service won't speed things up either.

Swap file (FP)

For maximum performance, Samsung recommends using standard Windows settings and relying entirely on the system. To save space or extend the life of the drive, it is recommended to set the initial file size to 200MB and the maximum to 1GB.

In blog comments and forums, I have repeatedly seen the opinion that with N gigabytes of RAM, a FP is not needed at all. It always seems strange to me because it takes PC-based tasks out of the equation.

If you have excess physical memory (for example, 16GB on VKontakte), you do not need FP. But if, with 8GB RAM, you also run a couple of virtual machines at the same time, the fast swapping of the SSD will pleasantly surprise you. I have exactly the second case, and I use swap files on two SSDs of the size chosen by the system.

Hibernation

Samsung suggests disabling hibernation to save space and reduce disk writes, but not for maximum performance. Moreover, the advanced settings say that hibernation should work on mobile PCs. As for desktop computers, sleep is enough for them.

System protection

Here, Samsung's recommendations go against the standard Windows settings and my advice not to disable system protection. The utility lists “a large number of background processes that can reduce system performance” as the reason for all three configurations.

System protection does not reduce the performance of Windows as a whole (and the translator actually made up “a large amount” :). Of course, installing drivers and some programs will take a little longer, since you need to create a point, but on an SSD this is almost unnoticeable. And according to the schedule, restore points are created while the system is inactive, so they do not affect performance in any way.

The utility's help lists another reason - “unnecessary recording to an SSD drive,” but I won’t comment on that.

Write cache buffer and clearing it

I haven't covered these settings in terms of myths, but Samsung's recommendations here are the same as the standard Windows settings. The “Policies” tab in the disk device properties should look like this:

I specifically included the picture because the parameter that controls buffer clearing is very poorly described in the Russian system (double negative). On the other hand, Samsung Magician uses the opposite logic of explanation, although the essence is the same. But just in case, I pressed the buttons to make sure :)

Other parameters

Of the other settings in the list, there is only a power plan. It is curious that high performance is recommended in all configurations, but in the set to extend the lifespan, a remark is suddenly made that mobile PC owners can choose other modes.

Samsung does not stoop to minor tweaks like disabling 8.3, nor does the utility contain recommendations about transferring everything to the hard drive (at best, they have a place in the set to save space or extend service life).

Who to believe?

The table above clearly shows that in terms of maximum performance, most of the recommendations from Microsoft and Samsung are the same. The only exceptions are related to SuperFetch, which does not affect anything, and system protection, which I do not agree with disabling.

photo credit: CollegeDegrees360

Microsoft

The creators of Windows customize it taking into account the variety of hardware and the many scenarios for using the OS. Therefore, the standard system configuration may not suit your case. But much more often it does not coincide with people's ideas about effective work in Windows or is sacrificed to old habits.

As I noted in the “myths,” when setting up a system to run on an SSD, it is important not to reduce its performance and speed, which often happens with indiscriminate optimization.

SSD Manufacturers

Their tips for saving space and extending the life of your drive often go hand in hand, with Samsung's differing only in the index setting. They are perfect for desktop PC owners who fundamentally disable system protection and do not know how to speed up their work using Windows search.

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You should definitely listen to the device manufacturer, but you should not blindly believe in their approach, because it is not always flawless.

about the author

Perhaps I didn’t understand something, but am I the only one who thinks the article is about nothing?
At first I was happy, I thought I would learn something new!
In my opinion, everything has already been chewed over in the wonderful article by the respected Vadim “12 immortal myths of SSD optimization”, and here there are continuous references to that article, and repetitions, simply written, in other words.
P.S. This is purely my IMHO, but I expected more. Apparently I’m used to the author’s most detailed, thoughtful articles :)

Andrey

plextor m5p 256gb

There is a proprietary utility, but I haven’t used it - there’s nothing sensible in it

Dmitriy

Good reminder for SSD owners. Repetition is the mother of learning.:-) . On my own behalf, I will say that not all “mushrooms” are equally useful; what I mean is that the use of utilities (with the exception of drivers) from the manufacturer is necessary in cases of some kind of problem with the hardware.

Alexei

Well, thank you! I just installed a Samsung SSD on a new system and was surprised at Samsung’s recommendations - but I put off studying it “for later” and completely forgot. And here everything is already sorted :)
The survey lacks the “For common sense” item: D, although for me it coincides with the “standard settings”.

Yuri

I bought an SSD for the note. Kingston, I think V-300. And speed memory too Kingston Harper. I don’t remember exactly, because I’m afraid to use it, and there’s no particular need for it yet. I just know that all the garbage is collected in my Temp folder. A familiar computer builder set up and installed it. My note is weak, but cheap and small, at that time money was tight. The disk is split into two. I installed AVZ, Glary portable and CCleaner on C, thought about it and deleted the latter. True, it seemed to me that the note began to work more slowly. Glary used once. I don’t remember if I used avz and CCleaner, I think not. I have seven, auto-update is enabled. Why it became slower - because of updates or because of them - I don’t understand. I have a seven. I don't like 8th. I wouldn't buy an ssd now. Working on a big one. The creators of programs, including Windows, make them for themselves. It’s like someone else’s cat ran into the house, pays zero attention to me, does what he wants, pisses on the walls, etc. I’m a writer, I can’t live without a computer and with it there’s nothing but troubles.

Valery

Silicon Power Slim S70 SP240GB. I have never seen a proprietary utility, even if it exists. After the purchase, I simply plugged it in and installed Win8 there, without configuring anything specifically for the SSD. There is an old hard drive nearby to store rarely used and large files.
The SSD is used for everything besides the system. All programs, games are installed there, torrents are downloaded.
The flight has been excellent for a year now.
I use a hard drive only when absolutely necessary - after SSD, HDDs work very unpleasantly, slowly and noisily.

Denis

OCZ Vertex 4 120Gb + 2 HDDs of 1Tb each.
In my opinion, there were no utilities other than the firmware update utility. From the very beginning, I put off studying settings and tweaks “for later,” and after reading “Myths” I realized that leaving the default settings was the right decision.

Valery

Valery

Yes. CDI incorrectly counts NAND WRITES, underestimating the value by half. And in the latest versions of Plextool, the HOST WRITES indicator was removed from the smart tool so that users would not ask “stupid” questions. All that's left is HOST READS.

Anton

An Intel SSD on a freshly installed Win 7 disabled only the paging file (because I have 32gb of RAM) and hibernation (because I don’t use it), the Intel program also asks to disable Prefetch and SuperFetch, but I don’t see the point in that.

Vitaly K. ©

I didn’t find an item for myself. You probably know my settings disk better than me)))
I read something on the Internet and came up with something myself. As a result, I screwed up the trim, turned off swapping and transferred the tempos to the ramdisk. The disk is guaranteed to work for a long time - it is still 100% healthy.

Basil

SSD Intel 520 Series 180GB
The system has two drives, the HDD, in turn, is divided into 250 (I keep Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 on it, and some programs, for example Photoshop) and 450 (for torrents and other garbage) GB.
The utility is available, with the help of it I did the optimization, which Intel recommends doing once a week, everything else is by default. I think it’s still worth it or not to disable the page file, with 16 gigabytes of RAM….

Valery

Vadim Sterkin: Valery, just a minute, how does CDI generally determine the difference between Host Writes and Nand Writes? This may be a SMART indicator, and then WA=NW/HW can be derived.

Yes. There are corresponding S.M.A.R.T. parameters. For Plextor drives this is 0xB1 (Wear Leveling Count).

NW=(B1 Decimal Value)*(Drive Capacity/2) - value in megabytes (relevant for M2, M3 and M5S of the old revision)

NW=(B1 Decimal Value)*(Drive Capacity) - value in megabytes (relevant for M5P and M5S new revision)

CDI calculates according to the old formula.

Vadim Sterkin: The same SF does not have NW, in cr. at least in my drive and Kingston SMART specifications.

Eat. It’s just that HyperX Smart is poorer and the values ​​are calculated a little differently. The KC300 has 100/0x64 (Gigabytes Erased) and 177/0xB1 (Wear Range Delta) - http://www.overclockers.ru/images/lab/2013/11/02/1/512_big.jpg.

Sergey

I transferred the system from HDD a year ago, SSD Crucial 120 Gb. There is no proprietary utility. Accordingly, the system and most of the programs are on the SSD. After transferring the system, I checked the settings and they coincided with your recommendations, Vadim, with which I completely agree. The performance index (Win 7x64) for the disk is 7.9. Why else rush around.....
The swap file was left at 1GB (not by system choice) on the SSD.
The memory is 16 GB, so I used tweaks:
http://forums.overclockers.ru/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=457299

These tweaks did not speed up the system much, but memory usage increased sometimes even up to 25%. Before the tweaks, the registry was never more than 15%.

I would like to see the above article about optimizing the use of large amounts of memory in 64-bit systems

Dima

Hello Vadim.
There is a crucial m4 60 GB (it used to have an OS) plextor m5r 128 two (one system, 2 hard drives. The first one has no utilities or recommendations (but the quality (private opinion)) I haven’t seen any recommendations from Plextor, the utility, how can I call it softer.... , and the system does not allow it to work in protected boot. Hibernation is disabled - the rest is by default.
You need to think about disabling defragmentation.

Maxim

Thanks for the article, Vadim!
I have an mSATA SSD Kingston SMS200S3120G
Before this, I didn’t even look to see if there were proprietary utilities, since my experience with a Kingston SSD on a desktop PC (Win 7) suggests that the standard Windows settings are sufficient.
After reading the article, I looked at the manufacturer’s website and downloaded the SSD Toolbox. A useful utility for viewing detailed information about the disk and for updating firmware (there are no updates at the moment). There are no settings in it, so there are no contradictions either.

Anatoly

“Ignorance of some principles of Windows operation prevented the company from implementing a more competent solution.” - are you serious?

Basil

Vadim Sterkin

Of course, here's the screenshot. It doesn’t show anything else, only a notification about successful optimization.

Pooh

SSD Mini Tweaker v2.4 and all problems are solved. I uncheck only recovery.

rass

TOSHIBA THNSNH128GBST.
The laptop allows you to install two 2.5″ drives, so I installed an SSD for the system and programs, but for my data I use a 1 TB HDD.
RAM 8 GB

According to the numbering of myths
1. SuperFetch seems to be disabled.
2. I didn’t touch defragmentation, I think Windows disabled it itself.
3. The swap file was left at the discretion of Windows.
4. In order not to waste the 8 GB SSD, I disabled hibernation.
5. I did not disable the Windows recovery function
6. Disabled indexing of files on the SSD drive (I didn’t split it into logical ones, I have one C: drive). And I don’t like how search is implemented in Win7. In addition, all my data is stored on the HDD. There's almost nothing to look for on an SSD.
7. I use HDD for the “junk” Downloads folder and for torrent downloads.
8. I install programs by default in ProgramFiles on the SSD; it was important for me that not only Windows would work quickly, but that the programs would also start. (I understand that the programs work with data stored on the HDD).
9. I did not move the AppData and ProgramData folders anywhere
10. Browser cache (I use Opera) - I haven’t disabled it. (disabled only for those who use this browser “Remember the contents of visited pages”)
11. Temporary files were not transferred anywhere, also on the SSD drive (I think this: since my main working files are stored on the HDD, then, of course, opening them will be slow, unlike if they were stored on the SSD, but while the program is running, all changes are saved at the same pace on the SSD, and this is already fast. But the control saving of the working file is again on the HDD - it will be slow, but not essential)
12. I didn’t do anything fancy with the registry.

I’ve been working with an SSD for a month and I can’t be happier with the speed.
I didn’t use any Toshiba programs, and there don’t seem to be any.

Pooh

Vadim Sterkin,

That's it!!! Because these are all myths!

Valery

Leonid

Not long ago I configured my SSD - Plextor M5 Pro in RAID 0 mode to increase the write/read speed. Although I read information on many forums that a raid is only needed for HDDs. As for the cache, I have 32GB of RAM and it is more than enough for the system, but just in case I allocated some space for the system SSD 2-4GB, I think this will not significantly reduce the service life :)

Paul

My first SSD PCI-Ex4 (slot) OCZ Revo Drive X2 died after a year and a half, at the moment when I was surfing the Internet, many bookmarks were open. I installed the tweak and disabled everything. Windows 7. When I bought a new SSD OCZ Vertex-4 SATA 6gB, I decided to install Windows and all programs and games on it, but I transferred all the user’s folders to the HDD, browser cookies, and downloads too; I disabled the search index and page file, since I have 8 GB of RAM. The SSD life test program showed the disk service life at these settings to be 41 years 10 months 18 days. I didn't make any other tweaks or settings. Now my SSD is 1 year 4 months old (service life). Just in case, I keep money in reserve for a new SSD. :)

Go to Task Manager -> Performance -> Resource Monitor -.> Disk, the way Windows treats your SSD will make your hair stand on end. Anyone who has a second computer or laptop with a regular HDD can compare (it has more write/read requests than an SSD)

Alexander

@Vasily, can you see a screenshot of SSD Toolbox with optimization, which is recommended once a week? I'm interested in what exactly they optimize there @

I’ll answer for Vasily (since I also have Intel), optimization there means forced Trim manually, which I occasionally use and do instead of the system :-) With Intel, the problem is different, I read somewhere - too lazy to look for what to enable/disable caching or enable/disable Clearing the cache (too lazy to search) greatly affects performance. I don’t know, it’s difficult to check, I have it like in your picture.

Paul

In order to check whether your SSD is configured correctly, look at the rating Windows gives it; if 7.9, then it’s correct, if less, then somewhere you missed the settings. If anyone doesn’t know, if you have one or more hard drives, Windows gives a rating only to the drive on which it is installed, and not the lowest, as I previously thought.

Elena

Vadim Sterkin: Vasily, can you see a screenshot of the SSD Toolbox with optimization, which is recommended once a week? I'm interested in what exactly is being optimized there :)

The Intel 520 series itself. There is TRIM once a week. Nothing else.

Vadim

Intel SSD 335 240Gb
I didn’t set up anything, because I completely trust Win8, fortunately it’s a license and no one messed with it. I use it as the only one in my laptop and for everything - system, office, games. Until a certain time, once a week (or two) in the Intel SSD Toolbox I clicked “optimize”, although I knew that it was just TRIM. After six months of absolutely normal operation, the laptop first froze out of the blue, then froze after another 2 days and that’s it... the SSD ran out. The system does not boot and does not display any errors, system recovery also does not load in any way.