[Mashiro]

Don't use Samsung Magician if you want to know the real performance of your Samsung or other brand SSD. Samsung Magician is a snake oil software in terms of benchmark and its performance boost features. So the benchmark will most likely sound too good to be true and if you use it with a different SSD it might rate it more negative than a Samsung SSD although that SSD might be much better than the Samsung SSD. The past (little example why and how is here and here) has revealed such cases already. Bascially it will use RAM for caching to show you rates about easily 3x - 5x higher than what the real speed of the SSD is. So the benchmark results are absolutely not representative at all as the speed is achieved not by the SSD directly but by using RAM cache. Real speed will be much lower after a very short time and is limited by different other factors.

Seagate has an intereting article about SSD benchmarking and the most of the times impossible speed rates you get during those benchmarks: https://www.seagate.com/de/de/tech-insig...master-ti/


Crystal Disk Info is not a benchmarking software. It is a SMART information software for HDDs, SSDs and other storage devices that are supported by it. It will show you the condition of your device, its age, all stats of writes/reads, errors and much more.

I can recommend Crystal Disk Mark because this is the actual SSD benchmarking software by Crystal Disk Info developers. I'm using it since years and it does so far always indeed show real and representative speed values during benchmarks.


No idea about the other software. Never heard about it and never used it. Another possible one to be used is HDTune (free trial for 30 days with full functions). HDTune is also widely known to check HDD/SSD health, information and other stuff including performing different kind of benchmarks.


TL;DR: I would recommend Crystal Disk Mark for speed test benchmarks and Crystal Disk Info for device information and health. Alternatively I can recommend HDTune which does everything that thepreviously mentioned apps do but is only available for free in trial mode for 30 days.