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Samsung SSD Rapid Mode 0 On or Off?
I just added a 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD to my laptop replacing a 5400RPM 640Gb SATAII HDD. Very nice performance boost. I then installed Samsung Magician to check it out and found the firmware was down level so I updated it to the latest. Also noticed that Rapid Mode was Off. I have the same drive in my Lenovo K450 and there I have Rapid Mode On.
I ran the Samsung Magician performance test and the numbers were pretty low on the laptop. I then turned on Rapid Mode, rebooted and ran it again and the performance numbers increased dramatically.
My non-empirical test results tell me Rapid Mode should be on, as long as I have the RAM available to support it as it can suck up to 4GB. Here are the numbers from before and after:
These are with Rapid Mode OFF. I captured this while the 2nd test with Rapid Mode on was running which is why you see it sitting at 92%.
These are with Rapid Mode ON: