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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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T7 or Higher PSSD reset instructions for Windows and Mac
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Samsung Portable Drive T7 or Higher Reset Instructions for Windows and Apple Computers This article provides instructions on how to reset the password for Samsung Portable Drives. PLEASE NOTE THAT EACH OF THE FOLLOWING PROCESSES WOULD DELETE ANY DATA STORED ON THE DRIVE. Windows Reset Process T7 or...
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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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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 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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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 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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OS Optimization Option: Maximum Performance |
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Maximum Performance Hibernation Mode Activate to setup standby mode Virtual Memory Activate to maintain the maximum amount of available memory. Indexing Service/Search Activate to increase the speed of data searches. Prefetch/Superfetch Deactivate this feature, as SSDs alrea...
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OS Optimization Option: Maximum Capacity
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Maximum Capacity Hibernation Mode Deactivate to prevent the system from creating a hiberfile, which burdens the SSD with unnecessary writes. Virtual Memory Activate to set the maximum system memory to 1 GB instead of 100 MB to increase system performance. Indexing Service/Search A...
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OS Optimization Option: Maximum Reliability |
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Maximum Reliability Hibernation Mode Deactivate to prevent the system from creating a hiberfile, which burdens the SSD with unnecessary writes. Virtual Memory Activate to set the maximum system memory to 1 GB instead of 100 MB to increase system performance. Indexing Service/Search ...
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OS Optimization Option: Advanced Mode
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Advanced — In Advanced mode, you can enable or disable the following features individually: Hibernation Mode Hibernation Mode enables quick restart and system standby times (particularly important for Laptop PCs) by saving the current system status to the hyberfil.sys file when the P...
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What is OS Optimization? |
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The OS Optimization feature optimizes the OS for working with an SSD to improve system performance and maximize SSD lifetime. This feature checks system settings to determine how they affect the SSD and recommends which features to enable or disable. Current Status — Shows whether a part...
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What should I do if an error occurs while I am using Magician to perform OS optimization?
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If Magician attempts to optimize the OS services and fails, please try manually turning the services on and off. OS optimization turns OS services on and off, which may not be permitted by the OS depending on the circumstances, so contact the manufacturer of your personal computer. If IRST is ins...
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