Samsung Magician gets updated to 6.1, support ending for older versions

Samsung’s SSD companion app gets an important update, with support for older releases soon to end.

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What you need to know

If you’re using a Samsung SSD in your PC then the companion app, Samsung Magician, is worth having. There’s abunch of useful featuresin there to optimize your drives, and now, Samsung is pushing out an important update. Version 6.1 is available now and users are advised to make the upgrade because all support for older versions will end by May 30.

There’s no immediately new features mentioned, but when it comes to the storage in your PC, using an unsupported version of Magician is probably a bad idea. Current users on 5.1 and above will get a notification in the app to make the upgrade, or, it seems, just get an automatic update as I did.

If you’re not on version 5.1 or above then you’ll have to download the app againfrom Samsungand do a fresh install.

Besides ensuring you have the latest firmware on your drives, Samsung Magician can enable Rapid Mode, squeezing a little more performance, run benchmarks, diagnostics, check general drive health and much more. It’s a neat little app and definitely worth a download.

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