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#Standard sata ahci controller driver 8.1 windows#
Why do users need easy access to settings they will likely never need to change? ESPECIALLY when those settings are not hard to access via Windows own menu systems?
But is it really needed? Those are typically "set and forget" settings. And it does so WITHOUT improving SSD performance! Once Windows is awake, booted and running normally (which is 99.999% of the time in question), those settings make absolutely no difference.Īnd as for providing easy access to SSD settings, that's fine. If all it did was let me change SSD settings, then no problem.īut it changes more than just SSD settings WITHOUT notice to the user! It changes security (password) settings and power (sleep) options. Magician DOES provide easy access to settings.
#Standard sata ahci controller driver 8.1 how to#
A no brainer for me - especially since modern Windows (7 & already know how to properly use a SSD. But since I don't notice any improvement, and I can find no published benchmarks showing Magician improves performance, I find it useless - worse than useless, it is a waste of system resources, a threat to security, and potentially increases wear and tear on hard drives. IF performance noticeably improved with Samsung Magician (once my computer fully booted/awoke) then I would consider the program useful. That, IMO, makes it useless (and harmful). No noticeable performance gains, reduced security, and wasted resources (RAM, disk space, and CPU cycles). And at what cost? More electricity, more wear and tear, more heat - all for a couple seconds when waking from sleep And WITHOUT providing ANY noticeable performance gains, once fully awake? Sure, those changes allow me to start using my computer a few seconds (yes seconds) sooner - but big deal. Why is a SSD performance tweaker messing with our hard drives in the first place? That increases wear and tear on my drives needlessly. It changed the sleep setting on my hard drives so they never stop spinning. That is bad and could be harmful if your computer can be accessed by others when you are away from your desk.Ģ.
#Standard sata ahci controller driver 8.1 password#
It changed my security setting so a password is not needed when "waking from sleep" - without notifying me of that change. Magician changed that to not required so boot times would be faster! Not cool!Ĭlick to expand. I ALWAYS set my computers to require a password when coming out of sleep modes.
For example, when you set it to "performance", it changed security settings and power mode settings I did not want changed.
So I don't allow Magician to run at boot - no regrets or problems. More importantly, by changing my Power Options settings, Magician prevented my computers from going to sleep - which I want it to do at the end of every day, and when I walk away from my computer for 20 minutes.įinally, I didn't notice ANY performance gains with Magician running anyway, so why waste system resources with a program that provides no noticeable improvements? Again - Not cool! As again, faster boot (or return from sleep) have NOTHING to do with performance once fully booted/awake. It also changed my drive sleep settings so my drives never power off. Magician changed that to not required so boot times would be faster! Not cool!įaster boot times does NOT mean better "performance" once the computer is fully booted. The defaults work just fine.īTW, keep on eye on Samsung Magician. W8/8.1 knows how to work and set itself up with SSDs - as do modern motherboards and chipsets.