The 0% represents brand new data of some type that has never been loaded into the Ramdisk while the 25% represents some type of data that is routinely loaded into the Ramdisk." Technical reviews revealed the actual real world increase in performance is anywhere between 0% and 25% depending on what was loaded into the Ramdisk. "The Samsung Rapid Mode benchmarks are a bit deceiving. This comment on a thread from way back in 2016 on the Overclockers UK forum seems to sum it up quite well: Looking around the web there are various resources discussing Rapid Mode, including "it certainly doesn't hurt having it enabled."
In my experience, I can't say I've noticed much of a difference either way, but I also don't use my 750 Evo as a boot drive (I have a 960 Evo for that which is amazing.) The theory behind it is sound, but since mine is used primarily for storing games and other large, non-essential programs, I'm not really the right use case. Because it interferes with the direct read/write feature, you won't ever get an accurate result and the benchmark is essentially running against your RAM, not your SSD. If you need to run any performance tests on your drive you'll need to disable Rapid Mode first, restart your PC, then run the tests. You can verify this by opening the application up and you'll see the button under Rapid Mode now says on. Magician will now force your PC to restart and when it comes back up Rapid Mode will be enabled. Once you're happy to restart the PC and apply Rapid Mode, click yes at the next dialog box. Once you've downloaded and installed Samsung Magician follow these steps:Įnsure the supported drive is selected from the drop-down box.Ĭlick yes when the description message pops up. It's worth having this if you're using any Samsung SSD, as it's an easy way to keep firmware up to date, keep tabs on drive health and performance and even securely erase it if you're going to be replacing it. The first thing you have to do is download the free (and quite useful) Samsung Magician application. Turning on Rapid Mode is extremely simple.
As well as this and 2GB of RAM, your PC must also be running Windows 7 or later. My 750 Evo isn't listed, but has full support for Rapid Mode.įor this you're limited to SATA drives, which includes the 2.5-inch size and some of the non-NVMe m.2 drives like the 860 Evo. Samsung's official listings show the wide variety of SSDs supporting Rapid Mode, but they don't seem to be all encompassing. So if you're using a 960 or 970 series SSD, you can end right here. The newest, and fastest NVMe drives from Samsung cannot use Rapid Mode.
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