I am baffled as to why Magician refuses to adjust my SSD’s power settings , i have looked around the web and there doesn’t seem to be any fixes. Disabling C States , Intel ready mode and link management makes no difference , any ideas ?
I am using firmware 4.97 since the new Magician is awful imo . Rapid mode IS NOT enabled and i am running Win 7 SP 1 64 bit professional. It’s a standard Sata based 850 Pro
Thank you
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@vhfan : I have moved your post into this already existing thread. That will make it easier to find it.
According to my own experiences with Samsung’s Magician this tool is crap and its usage not recommended by me. If you want to adjust the power settings of your system, why don’t you just use the "Power Setting" option from within the Control Panel of your OS?
Thank you Fernando , i have done exactly as you describe . On a laptop, Magician automatically set the power options to high performance so i was just curious as to why on a new desktop it fails to do so thats all .
On another note i just noticed you show that you use Intel’s 530 integrated graphics , i recently upgraded my graphics to a dedicated video card but afterwards decided to go back to Intel’s 530 integrated because i was mislead into thinking a graphics card improved overall computing but i saw zero evidence of that and sold the graphics card.
@Fernando Have you ever used the Rapid mode setting with Magician? if so, what did you think of it in relation to experiencing any extra performance, or not? I have an 850 EVO 500Gb in my HP Pavilion 3032 notebook, and the only reason I use Magician is for the Rapid mode, which going by the program’s benchmark, it about doubles the read/write performance. But I haven’t actually benchmarked it in the real world or tested it with any resource hungry program to see if there is any real need for Rapid mode.
Yes, I have used Samsung’s Magician "Rapid mode" several times. The benchmark results I got looked extremely promising, but I found out, that there was no remarkable speed boost while doing my daily work. My personal conclusion: All benchmark tests, which are done with enabled "Rapid" mode, show the speed of your RAM and not the speed of your SSD.
I have used Rapid mode as well and while benchmarks do seem to impress the masses in everyday real world usage i don’t notice any speed improvement whatsoever . This is just my opinion from going between Rapid mode and non Rapid mode.
Some people do seem satisfied with just the numbers however and like to use Rapid for benchmarking purposes .
Btw: Intel SSD Toolbox v3.4.5 works fine with configuration.
" • Optimize Intel SSD performance in RAID 0 using Trim functionality Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) 11.0 or greater." on my Windows 7 x64 which was not the case in some previous versions.
Support for SSD Ultimate SU900 et XPG SX950.