SAMSUNG MAGICIAN

The software CD includes both the Samsung Magician software version 4.6 and the Data Migration version 2.7.

As always the very first screen you will see of the Samsung Magician software is basically an overview of the drive (you can check the SMART attributes from here as well).

The Magician Software gives you the option to perform a fast benchmark to check the speed of the drive.

You can visit the performance optimization page every now and then to "improve" the performance of the drive (it actually works quite well).

Typically i suggest checking the firmware tab as soon as possible to see if Samsung has released a new firmware for the drive.

Two extra features of the Samsung Magician software is that it allows you to set extra overprovisioning space for the drive (improves TRIM and garbage collection) and also allows you to secure erase its contents.

RAPID (Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O Data) mode basically uses up to 4GB (or 25% whichever comes first) of system RAM (DRAM is much faster compared to NAND flash) to cache frequently accessed data (in short it works like a RAM disk).

You can also check the current data security settings from the Samsung Magician software.