Samsung Magician

Gary · 26 Oct 2015

Snakeyes said:

If you have turned on Rapid, it will stay on even after 4.8 is turned off. To turn it off you have to restart 4.8 to disable Rapid. There is really no need to have magician run on startup since it performs no other meaningful function than to check for new versions.

Cliff S, which performance software are you using and what queue depth is it running on?

Interested users would want to know??

Cliff S · 26 Oct 2015

This is what I mean by bench marking

OldMike65 · 26 Oct 2015

Snakeyes said:

As long as you enabled rapid, and then shut off magician and/or stopped it from restarting, you are fine.

Thanks but I kinda already knew that..:)

Snakeyes · 26 Oct 2015

Here goes nothing – fortunately the Samsung performance measurement is done at the queue depth of 32, about 28 to 30 levels above my normal operational queue depth

Snakeyes · 26 Oct 2015

OldMike65 said:

Thanks but I kinda already knew that..:)

My Bad

Gary · 26 Oct 2015

Cliff S said:

It needs to run a few days so it knows what programs to cache, just like prefetch does. Any speed improvements will be gradual, except for benchmarks, there you will notice an immediate difference.

Thanks Cliff, I appreciate it!

OldMike65 · 26 Oct 2015

Here are mine, and I wrote down my old spec's before I did the new check, They went up HUGE compared to when I was running 4.7 HUGE difference now!!

Cliff S · 26 Oct 2015

@Gary another place you'll notice an immediate performance kick with RAPID is, when you run your virus scanner on the disk(other disk, 2nd internal or external of course will slow the scanning down) because of the much faster read times.

Gary · 26 Oct 2015

OldMike65 said:

Here are mine, and I wrote down my old spec's before I did the new check, They went up HUGE compared to when I was running 4.7 HUGE difference now!!

Yours are way better than mine probably because I am using SATA II

Word Man · 26 Oct 2015

Cliff S said:

It needs to run a few days so it knows what programs to cache, just like prefetch does. Any speed improvements will be gradual, except for benchmarks, there you will notice an immediate difference.

@Cliff S, my thinking of RAPID mode as of no use to me up until now has been based on the writings about their about it being of benefit only at queue depths of 32 or greater and my only SHORT TERM (hours at most) observation of perceived performance on my machine.

I WILL however, give it a go over the course of a week, as you suggest, and will see if I perceive any change in how my system performs for me. Nonetheless, it'll still be apples versus oranges in the sense that you probably use your machine differently than I do mine.

Most interesting to me will be if my wife observes any performance difference with RAPID mode active on HER laptop. Hers is oly SATA 2 and I installed SSD identical to mine (850 EVO 500 GB) - she only gets half the sequential rates on the Magician benchmark that my SATA 3 laptop does - she's nonetheless pleased with the better responsiveness than her old 5400 RPM 1 TB spinner gave her. I won't explain RAPID to her (not that she'd care to hear it) and just ask her if she notices any difference in the coming week. (We both have 8GB RAM).