Installation Guide

SAMSUNG PROPRIETARY

General Limitations

Overall

1)Magician Shows only supported features for the connected SSD. Appearing features may vary as (different) SSDs connected.

2)Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface.

3)Only MBR and GPT partition types are supported. Magician may not work with other partition types.

4)Magician shows only volumes mounted with letter.

5)Magician will not work on SSDs that are locked with a user password.

6)The user may need to manually refresh for Magician to accurately reflect all connected/removed disks.

7)RAID on mode in SATA configuration is not supported by Samsung Magician and USB bootable solution.

8)If you are using any custom storage driver, then Magician may not work properly. Please always use the latest storage driver or Microsoft driver.

9)In Windows 7, the Samsung NVMe Driver is required for Magician to fully

support Samsung’s NVMe device.

10)Some features which may be able to cause compatibility issue can be hidden or prohibited. Please check notices in System Compatibility.

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)

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