Optimising Samsung SSDs (for gaming PC)

martinlest · Aug 25, 2015

Hi. My new gaming system (solely for Microsoft FS9 & FSX) is basically an Intel i7-4790K@4GHz, an nVidia GTX970 GPU, 2x8GB DDR3 RAM - and two Samsung EVO 850 SSDs (500GB each).

I wonder if anyone else uses a Samsung SSD and has tried optimising the drive (for performnace, reliability, or whatever) using the Samsung Magician 4.6 software.

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/whitepaper/whitepaper12.html

I shall certainly disable prefetching, indexing etc. (as generally advised) on these drives and wonder whether there would be any point in installing this bit of software in addition.. If you have experience with the Magician programme in gaming PCs, perhaps you could advise from your experience?

Thanks,

Martin

Kiril1512 · Aug 25, 2015

I have the EVO 850 and EVO 840. Both using in max performance in Magician. The load are soo fast that I cant see the diference using performance mode or other option...

martinlest · Aug 25, 2015

Thanks for the quick reply.

I was looking at this, too (forgot to post the link)..

http://www.thessdreview.com/software-2/samsung-magician-4-5-rapid-mode-2-1-testing/

Kiril1512 · Aug 25, 2015

With that you have like 4000mb read and write but this is only for some files and most used files in your pc (automatic detection).

martinlest · Aug 25, 2015

Yes, I know: I'd have to try it out in MS Flight Simulator and see if it gives me any gains, but I suspect that both FS9 and FSX will function superbly and well (respectively) on this system and that any tweaking will be irrelevant. In FS, it's terrain/texture loading that is the real heavy-duty task.

Whatever, it may be worth installing the software just for the drive monitoring function.

Thanks again.

QSV · Aug 25, 2015

Try to avoid Samsung Magician. In many cases it has messed up systems because it changed values wrong.
From Windows 7 on the OS sets up everything automatically for an SSD for optimal performance. No need to change anything. You can make some tweaks, but they are obsolete now with recent SSD generations, and they didnt improve performance anyway.

martinlest · Aug 25, 2015

OK, thanks for the advice. I guess there's no harm in installing it just for the diagnostics, but I am likely (on reflection) not to use any of the tweaking functions. I can do most of it manually (like stopping indexing etc.) anyway, as I say.

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