How to enable Rapid mode on Samsun 850 Pro


  1. Posts : 355
    Win10 Ver. 1809 Build 17763.`
       #1

    How to enable Rapid mode on Samsun 850 Pro


    Quick steps:
    1. Remove any versions of Samsung Magician later than 4.5 (inclusive)
    2. Download an d install Samsung Magician 4.4
    3. Start it, enable Rapid Mode, and reboot
    4. (If desired - I did this) remove Samsung Magician from Startup group

    Longer explanation:

    Originally I did a clean install of Build 10240 on a brand new 850 Pro. The disk that came with the drive was Magician 4.5, so I pitched that and downloaded and installed Magician 4.6. After seeing that it did not allow enabling Rapid Mode I started doing some research and found several posts that said Magician 4.4 did run on Win10 and did support rapid mode.

    So I used Uninstaller Pro (which I use to uninstall everything) to uninstall Magician 4.6, found a place to download Magician 4.4, installed it, and rebooted. Here is my first screenshot showing my 850 Pro:

    How to enable Rapid mode on Samsun 850 Pro-before1.jpg

    You can see the 850 Pro is recognized A-OK, but rapid mode was not enabled. To see what difference it might make I ran the internal benchmark:

    How to enable Rapid mode on Samsun 850 Pro-before2.jpg

    This is the benchmark results before enabling Rapid mode. After that I enabled Rapid mode, rebooted, and ran the same benchmark again. Here are those results:

    How to enable Rapid mode on Samsun 850 Pro-after.jpg

    It's pretty clear Rapid mode is a good thing to do and Magician 4.4 allows it to work.

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  2. Posts : 3,264
    Windows 11 Pro 64 bit Version 21H2
       #2

    another post here on this too Samsung Magician
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  3. Posts : 27,163
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #3

    @bbinnard,

    How stable is it running for you now? I had BSODs during the Preview running RAPID. Actually Magician would crash a lot first(on an older version) and after a few times NUKE the4 system, so I got the latest version(4.6) and kept RAPID off. Also if it is running stable please give a link to SM 4.4.
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  4. Posts : 201
    Kernel 4.x.x
       #4

    Rapid mode is just an aggressive filesystem cache right?

    So it really only accelerates reads the second time you open a file, and makes buffer flush times longer and more dangerous on systems without a battery backup.
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  5. Posts : 355
    Win10 Ver. 1809 Build 17763.`
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Cliff - it's only been several hours, but I have rebooted a few times and run different things. No problems at all.

    I lost the link to 4.4, but just google "samsung magician 4.4 download" an you'll find several places. I got it from one of those software distribution sites.

    Hydranix - my system is connected to a UPS. Isn't everyone's?
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  6. Posts : 27,163
    Win11 Pro, Win10 Pro N, Win10 Home, Windows 8.1 Pro, Ubuntu
       #6

    bbinnard said:
    Cliff - it's only been several hours, but I have rebooted a few times and run different things. No problems at all.?
    Sounds good, maybe my earlier problems were because the preview didn't have all the permissions that the finished product does.


    bbinnard said:
    I lost the link to 4.4, but just google "samsung magician 4.4 download" an you'll find several places. I got it from one of those software distribution sites.?
    I'll find it thanks.


    bbinnard said:
    Hydranix - my system is connected to a UPS. Isn't everyone's?
    Good counter, and a UPS is a good investment

    Thanks again for the update:)
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