Samsung Rapid Mode

[killroy67]

I just recently got a Samsung 850 SSD and have been reading up on rapid mode. Does this have any real benefit? I have read both pros and cons so would like to hear some opinions from users in the Hard forum.

 

[arestavo]

It makes zero difference for game loading times, and when it gets messed up you'll never be able to reenable it without a Windows reinstall (or perhaps a Windows rollback).

Benchmarks look great with it enabled! That's about all I can say to it being a benifit to my 850 Evo.

 

[the snake]

It makes zero difference for game loading times, and when it gets messed up you'll never be able to reenable it without a Windows reinstall (or perhaps a Windows rollback).

Benchmarks look great with it enabled! That's about all I can say to it being a benifit to my 850 Evo.

i have used rapid mode for years, helps with some transfers to other SSD's IMO, but i have never had an issue with having to re-istall windows when testing having it off or on.

just my 2 cents.................................

 

[the_real_7]

its a software cache to your onboard memory. great for numbers nothing else. if you wanna go faster get a ssd that naturally faster. Always skip software to hardware hacks

 

[Nate7311]

In short, it sounds really god, but provides no real world benefit, especially if you have less than 8GB Ram. I've seen it create low memory conditions in the past.

 

[ReaperX22]

I've got it enabled on both my 840 series SSDs. Pretty numbers. I haven't noticed anything else different, though. 16GB of RAM and typically I don't ever use more than 8-10gb so keeping it on doesn't really hurt me either. Also yet to have any problems requiring any type of reinstall (I've also enabled/disabled it a few times in testing when I first started playing with it). It's been 1-2 years now.