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

Samsung Magician 6.1 (Image credit: Windows Central)

What you need to know

All users of Samsung Magician are advised to update to version 6.1.
Older versions will cease being supported at the end of May.
Samsung Magician is a companion app to the company's SSDs that helps its users get the best from their products.

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 again from Samsung and do a fresh install.

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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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