Samsung released Samsung Magician 4.6, this build adds support for new SSDs and offers  performance optimizations with the 840 EVO series. As weird as it is, Samsung has limited the number of downloa... Samsung Magician 4.6 Download
This version commes with the latest 840EVO firmware (EXT0DB6Q), because i installed, and i checked fireware update, and dont give me to install the new fireware, remain the old fireware (EXT0CB6Q), and say that is the latest fireware!!!
Same, can't update firmware (if there is newer included with this) and they also disabled performance optimizing under win 8+
Yes, it did that to me as well. just keep rerunning it at random and eventually it will show you the latest version. Another issue that I had was that the upgrade would fail. "Unable to upgrade firmware". I ended up having to completely uninstall the AMD SATA driver, reboot, and then let the default MS drivers install. After about 3 reboots, I ran the Magician and everything upgraded fine. I then reinstalled the AMD SATA drivers. All is well now.
New firmware not showing for me either..... Why can't Samsung do the right thing and release the FW is a separate file....
You'd think a multi-billion company would be able to host a few file servers for their 2MB downloads right ...
I was not able to get Magician from Samsung. Somebody on the forum put it on a file sharing site, but I was able d/l the firmware on the first try, pretty pathetic. Samsung aint getting any more of my money anymore.
I couldn't update my 840 PRO's firmware with Samsung Magician v4.5, but there was no problem updating it with v4.6.
Maybe there's another reason? Considering the issue with one of the 850 firmwares and some other issues, maybe they want to limit it for know to get more of an assessment of how many people experiences issues, etc. Dunno, seems like there's another reason. Razer did a similar thing with the Abyssus 2014 update (which was silly considering the mouse was practically unusable without it).
My 840 has never had the read bug, always returned over 500MB/s since instal. However the write speed is shockingly poor. 215MB/s and no its not the mobo or driver as my 2nd drive (SanDisk 256gb Ultra Plus) writes almost twice as fast.
the first thing come into my head about limiting download is all about limiting the spread, so incase there is bug / issue within new firmware, it still limited