This Samsung forum post is already about this for the 5.x version of the Samsung Magician. In summary the SSD is quite old and no longer supported by Samsung – certainly with regards to their Samsung Magician software. He probably has the Samsung Magician in version 6 and there his Samsung SSD is not recognized anymore. The user wrote about this:Īpologies, but I should have mentioned trying Samsung Magician but ridiculously, it returned no information about the drive! Technically though, my drive is not listed as supported – certainly not on the current version 6. However, to my surprise, the Samsung Magician may fail with older SSDs. The tool is provided by Samsung ja for managing SSDs. I checked again today using both versions of CrystalDiskInfo and each comes up with a different percentage?! I also used the CMD: wmic diskdrive get model,status which only shows a status of OK.Ĭan anyone shed any light on this issue as any advice would be greatly appreciated – thank you.Ī well-meaning user then suggested using the Samsung Magician for this test. I check my SSD roughly monthly with CrystalDiskInfo and upto & including version 8.5.0 圆4 showed my drive’s health status as: Good – 94%.Ī recent update of CrytsalDiskInfo to version 8.7.0 圆4 and it now shows as: Good – 59%.īased on such a percentage change, I explored a bit further using Open Hardware Monitor (0.9.5) and this shows a ‘remaining life’ of 94%. I am hoping to get some advice on a bit of a conundrum I am experiencing with the health of my SSD. A user of Windows 10 version 1909 has a Samsung PM830 128GB SSD installed and asked how he could find out the ‘health status’ of this SSD. I became aware of the issue being discussed at through the above tweet from Michael Horowitz. Do other vendors offer software for managing their SSDs? I too have seen Magician not run because the SSD was too old. Shame on Samung, for not supporting their older SSDs. As it looks, the current Samsung Magician is not able to support older SSDs anymore. I’ll bring up the topic here on the blog, maybe blog readers can add to the experience.

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