Help moving from samsung magician 4.5 to 5.0 with 850 EVO

[HenriqueLP]

Hello.

I recently did a clean windows 10 install using an out of the box samsung 850 EVO 250GB (no migration tool used). After that I installed magician 4.5 that came with the box.

Then ONLY two things I did were setting 10% over provisioning and running that optimization performance once.

After some research on windows 10 and ssds and the 5.0 new magician version, I decided to install the 5.0 version and uninstall the 4.5. I did not revert any settings in 4.5, I simply uninstalled it before installing 5.0.

Now it got me curious, cause I found a lot of controversial infor around 5.0, OP and all that.

Should I keep using the 5.0? Can I check somehow if OP stayed after moving from 4.5 to 5.0 and is it at all necessary (since they removed it from 5.0)? Is it allright to leave everything as it is, with the 5.0 installed and not using RAPID?

I am not looking for top end performance or anything like that. Mostly curious and care more about improved lifespan and stability.

p.s In the 5.0 interface it shows: total capacity=233GB. And in the completion bar it shows 209gb (182gb free). Maybe that matters, I dont know...

 

[USAFRet]

I have 5.0 installed...no problems.

What controversial info have you found?

 

[Blackink]

To me, it seems that there are less features to "optimize" your SSD in Samsung Magician 5.0 vs. 4.5.

 

[HenriqueLP]

I have 5.0 installed...no problems.

What controversial info have you found?

Stuff like:

OP is/isnt necessary. No consensus

Those system settings (performance, reliability, etc.. that were available in 4.5) are bad due the way win 10 works. But some say they are good.

Rapid is good/bad with win 10.

Rapid is just for benchmarks and does not actually boost the performance you "feel".

But anyways, im mainly concerned about the OP and lack of options in the 5.0 and the way I installed it (first using 4.5). Maybe I would be better off starting with 5 if I knew about it, im not sure if that matters at all...

 

[USAFRet]

RAPID mode - I've tried it with 2 different Samsung drives...250GB 840 EVO and 500GB 850 EVO.
Great for benchmarks, no noticeable realworld performance increase.

So I turned it off.

Over provisioning. It simply walls off part of the drive from you and the OS. So that you can't actually (and accidentally) fill it up.
The drive firmware still uses the whole drive for wear leveling.

Other than that, Magician is a good tool for firmware checks and updates, performance checks. Not something you run and monitor all the time.