Samsung releases magician command line tool for linux – Samsung SSD drives
Magician DC
Magician is Samsung’s disk management and diagnostic software for it’s line of SSD solid-state drives. Magician allows you to benchmark your drive, upgrade firmware, check S.M.A.R.T, configure drive encryption, and over provisioning.
Until now, this tool has only been available on Windows PCs, today the linux command line version of Magician is available and supports linux distros RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu.
Samsung describes this new tools as follows.
Samsung SSD Magician DC software is designed to help users with easy-to-use disk management and diagnostic features for server and data center usage. This software is only for Samsung SSD products.
