Samsung Magician Changelog

What's new in Samsung Magician 5.0.0

Nov 29, 2016
  • Completely redesigned 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

New in Samsung Magician 4.9.7 (May 16, 2016)

  • Improved stability with some SSD models
  • Update typo

New in Samsung Magician 4.9.6 (Apr 29, 2016)

  • New model support : 850 EVO mSATA, 850 EVO M.2
  • Advanced Performance Optimization feature for 840 EVO; New firmware is required to use Advanced Performance Optimization
  • Update Magician GUI and Help file

New in Samsung Magician 4.9.5 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Security enhancement

New in Samsung Magician 4.9 (Nov 13, 2015)

  • New model support: Samsung 750 EVO SSD

New in Samsung Magician 4.8 (Oct 27, 2015)

  • Magician version 4.8 features a number of improvements over version 4.7:
  • New model support: Samsung 950 PRO SSD
  • New OS support: Windows 10

New in Samsung Magician 4.7 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • New model support: 850 PRO 2TB, 850 EVO 2TB
  • Advanced Performance Optimization support for 840EVO mSATA
  • New firmware is required to use Advanced Performance Optimization
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Samsung Magician 4.6 (Apr 25, 2015)

  • New model support : 850 EVO mSATA, 850 EVO M.2
  • Advanced Performance Optimization feature for 840 EVO
  • New firmware is required to use Advanced Performance Optimization
  • Update Magician GUI and Help file

New in Samsung Magician 4.5 (Dec 8, 2014)

  • New model support : 850 EVO
  • Improved RAPID v2.1
  • Reduce the CPU Utilization
  • during Magician launch
  • Enhanced SATA Interface view and Over Provisioning
  • Update Magician GUI and Help file

New in Samsung Magician 4.4 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • New model support : 850 PRO
  • RAPID v1.1
  • PCIe SATA Card, Marvell chipset support
  • Remove the UAC( User Account Control) alarm
  • Retain the OS Optimization mode when updating the Magician
  • Improve the operation speed of Performance Optimization

New in Samsung Magician 4.2.1 (Oct 8, 2013)

  • RAPID(Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O data) Mode
  • Dynamic Over Provisioning
  • Recommended : 10 % of available space for OP by default
  • Custom : User can provide the percentage of available space for OP
  • Disk Authenticity :
  • This feature has been removed from the main menu of Home screen and integrated with Disk Drive view and improved compatibility issue between 840 and 840 PRO under specific systems.
  • OS Optimization :
  • After configuring the Virtual memory in the OS Optimization
  • Reliability/Endurance/Capacity), if the Virtual memory is configured successfully then user will be prompted to do a system restart by magician application.
  • DPI(Display Interface) scaling limited to maximum 115% in case user changes the DPI more than 100%. With this also some of system component like menu, message box and scroll bar are still scalable based on user selection

New in Samsung Magician 4.1 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Multi-language support for the following list of languages is added:
  • Spanish
  • Deutsch
  • Japanese
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • French
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Fixed the crash issue related to resolution less than 1024x768.
  • Application Resize to 1024X728.
  • OS Optimization: Support for Power option (Samsung high performance) provided.
  • Help File updated for all Languages accordingly
  • Retaining Scheduler record s from 3.2, 4.0 to 4.1

New in Samsung Magician 4.0 (May 15, 2013)

  • Completely redesigned User Interface and User Experience
  • Simple, graphical indication of drive health status and Total Bytes Written
  • At-a-glance system configuration information, including SATA interfaceand AHCI support
  • Re-designed OS Optimization featuring three common user profiles and detailed explanations of each configuration option
  • SSD Authentication feature to verify your SSD is a genuine Samsung product

New in Samsung Magician 3.1.1 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Added CD/DVD burning tool for Firmware update & secrue erase
  • Fixed minor bugs