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System Extension Blocked Mac, What Is It & How to Fix?
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What is system extension on Mac?At the 2019 WWDC, Apple announced that Kernel Extensions (Kexts) would be replaced by System Extension. Kernel Extensions (Kexts) allow developers to create some powerful apps by letting them load code directly into the macOS kernel. Since actions taken by it occur ...
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How to access & change settings of Startup Security Utility (M1/M2/M3 Mac Included)? |
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The Startup Security Utility is a tool used to guarantee the security of the startup on your Mac computers. It can restrict your Mac to start up from your designated startup disk, and from a legitimate, trusted operating system. On a Mac without a T2 chip, the Startup Security Utility provides only...
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What should I do if the speed of my SSD seems to be slow
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When the SSD is used over a long period of time, the status of the SSD can become "dirty," which may affect the performance of the SSD. 1) Please use the Magician Tool, provided by Samsung, and run Performance Optimization. - Run the program regularly to prevent this. 1) Please ensure that yo...
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Does Windows XP support the TRIM feature? |
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No, only Windows 7 and above support the TRIM feature. The Samsung SSD Magician software enables you to manually use TRIM on both Windows XP and Windows Vista....
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What do I need to watch out for when using RAPID?
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Restrictions for RAPID (Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O data) 1. Even if you have more than one SSD connected to the system, only one of them can use RAPID Mode 2. RAID mode is not supported 3. NVIDIA Storage controller is not supported 4. A RAPID Mode enabled SSD does not support firm...
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What is Secure Erase? |
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Secure Erase permanently destroys all data stored on the SSD by erasing the data in all cells (by changing them to FF status). In addition, Secure Erase provides a way to reset the SSD to its factory default state if there is a problem with the performance or operation of the SSD....
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How do I perform Secure Erase?
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Before running Secure Erase, make sure that the firmware of the SSD is updated to the latest version. Also be aware that all data on the drive will be destroyed. - Windows : . Use Magician to run Secure Erase.Download Magician at http://www.samsung.com/samsungssd - DOS : . Use the Windows Magic...
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The text is corrupted when performing Secure Erase after booting from a CD or USB. |
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The "/s" command line parameters must be used in the command to configure the default DOS font when using the DOS-based Secure Erase utility. The command is as follows. Segui0 /s...
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What is Magician?
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The Samsung Magician software is designed to help users easily manage the health and performance of their Samsung SSD. In addition to providing vital SSD health status information, Magician will assist users in updating firmware, measuring performance, and optimizing the configuration of a Windows ...
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What versions of Windows are supported by the Samsung Magician software? |
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Samsung’s SSD Magician Tool supports the following Windows OS’s: Windows XP (32/64bit), Windows Vista (32/64bit), Windows 7 (32/64bit), Windows 8 (32/64bit) Windows 8.1(32/64bit), and Windows 10 (32/64bit) Magician does not support Linux or Mac OSX. Component Requi...
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SSD Samsung Magician does not detect my SSD. What should I do?
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SSD Magician is compatible with Samsung-branded SSDs only. If your SSD is an OEM product, Magician is unable to support it. If you have a Retail Samsung-branded SSD, confirm whether or not the SSD is detected by the Windows device manager. Your SSD should be detected as either an IDE or an AHCI dev...
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Does Samsung Magician have any limitations Pt1 |
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Magician is designed specifically for Samsung-branded SSDs. SSD-specific features like Firmware Update, Disk Health Status, Secure Erase, and Total Bytes Written are not supported for non-Samsung SSDs. Magician does not work with SSDs connected via the SCSI controller interface. Only MBR and GPT pa...
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What should I do if Magician does not correctly display the health status or TBW?
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1) Samsung 470 Series SSD does not support the drive status display feature (Health Status and TBW). 2) Drive status uses SMART values, so press the SMART button in the Magician home screen to make sure that all SMART values are correctly displayed. 3) If a driver compatibility issue fails the ho...
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What is Performance Optimization? |
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The Performance Optimization feature automatically consolidates disparate data and prepares invalid data for future use. It accomplishes these tasks with two very important SSD maintenance features: TRIM and Garbage Collection. Performance Optimization can restore the performance of an SSD th...
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Magician - Frequently Ask Questions
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Q1. Why does Benchmarking take long time for USB storage devices? A1. Benchmarking speed depends on the device speed. Typically, USB storage device are not as fast as internal storage devices. The speed of a USB device will also be affected by the USB interface. The newest USB 3.0 interface will re...
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