Solid State Drives (SSD) offers more performance when compared to the traditional hard drives, but SSD’s lifetime also less, Samsung SSD Magician offers collection of tools for Samsung SSD which allows to optimize, benchmark the performance and also to update the firmware version of SSD drive.
Samsung SSD Magician works only for SSDs connected with SATA controller than of SSDs connected through SCSI Controller. This tool offers various tools, System tool is one, displays system information and disk summary such as model name, serial number, firmware, drive capacity.
Performance Benchmark menu allows user to select the disk for benchmarking. The performance benchmarking application calculates the performance of selected Samsung SSD.
Performance Optimization tool allows user to select the disks on which TRIM Operations should be done.
F/W update menu allows the user to create a bootable USB drive to update connected SSD’s. User will be provided the options to select USB disk and the option to browse the folder containing latest firmware which is downloaded from Samsung website.
Samsung SSD Magician Tool is currently in beta and freeware, works in Windows XP/Vista/7.