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CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 PRODUCT OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................................................ 6
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Cautions .................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
System Requirements ....................................................................................................................................................... 6
CHAPTER 2 ................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 HOW TO USE SAMSUNG SSD MAGICIAN ....................................................................................................................... 9
Installing Samsung SSD Magician .............................................................................................................................. 9
Samsung SSD Magician Basics ................................................................................................................................. 10
Start the
Samsung
SSD Magician Software
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System Information ............................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Performance Benchmark .................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Performance Optimization .............................................................................................................................................................. 13
OS Optimization .................................................................................................................................................................................. 15
Firmware Update ................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Secure Erase ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Over Provisioning ................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
Disk Clone ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Site Link ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
CHAPTER 3 ................................................................................................................................................. 21
3.1 FIRMWARE UPDATE UTILITY ............................................................................................................................................. 22
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Cautions ............................................................................................................................................................................... 22
System Requirements .................................................................................................................................................... 23
3.2 PREPARING FOR THE UPDATE ........................................................................................................................................... 24
Creating a Boot Disk for the Firmware Update ................................................................................................ 24
3.3 UPDATING THE FIRMWARE................................................................................................................................................ 29
Using the DOS Firmware Utility ............................................................................................................................... 29
CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................................................................. 33
4.1 SECURE ERASE UTILITY ...................................................................................................................................................... 34
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................... 34
Cautions ............................................................................................................................................................................... 34
System Requirements .................................................................................................................................................... 35
Creating a DOS-Bootable USB Drive containing the Secure Erase Utility ........................................... 35
4.2 USING THE SECURE ERASE UTILITY ................................................................................................................................. 39
Starting DOS SSD Application .................................................................................................................................. 39