Do I need Magician 4.5 on new Samsung 850 EVO SSD?

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NancyJo

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For my first time installing a new 500gb EVO 850 to replace a very full 128 Crucial SSD that had approx. 7 gb remaining. My new EVO came with a disk for Magician 4.5, but I was afraid to use it before imaging the old SSD onto the 500 EVO (using Acronis True Image).

Everything is working fine...but I wonder, am I going to mess everything up by adding Magician 4.5? Reading Samsung's pdf support for installing Magician 4.5 has A LOT of warnings about drivers, manufacturers that do/don't work and basically left me feeling that if something went wrong they wouldn't be responsible.

On the other hand, for updates to the hardware - do I need magician?

My setup:
Win7 - 64 bit
500gb EVO on drive C
500 gb hard drive (ATA Device) on drive D
I have a USB external hard drive
NAS 1tb


Thanks!
 
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It is the best way to verify and update if necesary the firmware on the disk. I would recommend installing it and then if you don't want it running all the time to disable the autostart.
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NancyJo

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Thank you for your quick reply! Will adding Magician corrupt my current data on the new SSD EVO?
The Magician 4.5 installation pdf http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/downloads/software/Samsung_Magician_45_Installation_Guide.pdf is scaring me -


  • RAID not supported in SATA config (properties of my Raid show NTFS but am I looking in the right place?)

  • All parallel operations should be terminated before executing the SSD - what is that?

  • There is always the risk of data loss when updating SSD firmware

 
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I have never had any issues with Magician corrupting data. I have had 3 different SSDs. There are probably stories you can search and find people saying all sorts of things. Again, I recommend installing it, having it check the firmware, and then you can turn it off. It will be installed and you can always run it again.

There are lots of options, including a RAM cache that magician offers. You will have to decide how comfortable you are using any or all of the features.
 
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OK - as long as I can turn it off if there is a problem (or I guess uninstall for that matter) to keep data working correctly

Thank you so much for your patience - I am only taking baby steps into the hardware part of computers.
 
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NancyJo:
The Samsung Magician program is a well-designed program and should cause you no concern in installing it on your PC.

But I am going to issue a cautionary note...

From time to time virtually every SSD manufacturer, including Samsung, will release Firmware Updates for one or more of their SSD models. And you will receive a notice from Samsung about the release of such an "update" with an encouragement to install the update. My advice to you is that unless the information concerning the update directly relates to a specific issue or problem that you've personally encountered with the SSD, DO NOT *immediately* install the update. Wait a reasonable period of time - a few months perhaps - before doing so to determine whether widespread problems have arisen for users as a result of installing the firmware update. If such problems have surfaced (and believe me they have!) you'll shortly learn about it on the net. A firmware update that has gone awry or proven defective is not a pretty sight.

The Magician program can monitor the health of your SSD and that, of course, serves a useful purpose.

You can be confident in using the other major component of the Magician software - the Data Migration program. It's an easy-to-use well-designed program and does the job it's designed for.

Are you planning to use - or considering such - to clone the contents of your Crucial 128 GB SSD to your new Samsung SSD?

I take it your internally-connected 500 GB HDD & the 1 TB USB external HDD serve as storage/backup drives?
 
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Thank you ArtPog - I already copied my old 128GB drive C data onto my new 500GB EVO and installed internally. I used Acronis True Image to prepare the boot disk and also to 'image' my old 128 data onto the new EVO. It was actually easy - select source, select destination - auto proceed (also a place for those of you who know what you are doing to copy manually).

My internal 500GB HDD is my drive D with as many programs as I can put on it. There were programs that I didn't want to transfer off the SDD - such as my Adobe CS6 Master collection and Acronis True Image (which for some reason has to be on the same drive as the Win7 installation).

I plan on backing up my computer to the cloud (Acronis True Image again) and also to my NAS in case I have an internet outage at least it would be accessible. Otherwise my NAS is where I am storing all of my Camera RAW files (backing them up to the cloud).

I was worried about the order of adding Magician - the paper that came with the disk implied that I needed to do it first. Instead I now have all my c drive data on this EVO SSD and I was afraid that adding Magician would be like reformatting. But now I understand it is ok to run the Magician for firmware updates.
 
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