Windows 10: Should I enable Rapid Mode on my new 1 TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD?

Any issue(s) that I should be aware of before I made a decision?

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My boot drive is a Samsung 960 Pro 512 in slot 6 using an adapter heat sink. I also have a Samsung 850 Pro 512 for backup. A Samsung 850 Pro 1TB for games and a Samsung 850 evo 1 TB for game backup. I have removed all but the boot drive and it didn't
make any difference. I also booted of the 850 backup with the same problem. Like I said I even reinstalled W10 Home 64 with no change.

 

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Thank you for your answer. I think I have fixed the problem. I have a Samsung 850 pro SSD that has Rapid Mode. I turned it off and haven't had a crash since. I will update if I have any more. Thank you.

 

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Rapid mode is actually just using part of your DDR system memory as a RAM disc so if you have at least 16GB or more RAM it might be advantageous to you.......as far as making the SSD any faster it will still operated as usual........

So, go for it if you have plenty of system memory......

 

Thanks Atlas7 (and welcome to the forum) and kipper. I appreciate your responses. After doing a bit of research I think I'll pass on Rapid Mode. Just no enough upside to justify some of the possible negative effects.

Hey, kipper. Almost time to start riding again. Got a few rides in a about a week ago when we had a warm spell. So nice. What do you ride? I have a 2004 Fat Boy and a 2013 Trike.
Bob

 

Love them Fat Boys Bob......

I finally took the plunge into financial embarrassment and bought a 2015 CVO Limited when they came out......Still learning the roads here in Middle TN since we moved here but do get in some good family rides......Our Daughter and Son-in-Law both ride Street Glides as well as our Grand-Daughter and her husband.......My family learned years ago if they want to spend time with the old man they better learn to ride......LOL

 

Your new ride sounds great and there's lots of great place to ride in TN. Personally I love the Blue Ridge Parkway. Your not to far from the Dragons Tail. My son did that last years. He loved it.

Be safe and if you ever get up to Virginia, please look me up.
Bob

 

IMHO, "Rapid" is a gimmick just like the "Turbo" button was on the 1990's PC's.

 

I disagree completely, as an IT professional who has been using 840/850 evo's since their birth, i highly reccomend using the rapid mode feature. up to 4GB of RAM is taken and used as caching memory which,as it is RAM memory is significantly faster than any SSD or HDD caching. Boot times will be significantly reduced, browser navigation and caching will be immediately faster and overall there is a very noticable difference. I have never had a bad issue such as data loss with the rapid mode on. Samsung magician takes a snapshot before you enable it allowing you to revert if there are issues.

 

I have tried it both ways (on & off) since Samsung SSD's came out. I have not noticed any difference whatsoever. However if you run benchmarks they will be faster with it on, but doesn't mean too much in the real world. Also you should have a decent amount of Ram as having it on borrows some of your ram. Best to try it yourself and see if you notice any difference. Every machine is different.

 

Absolutely not true*Sad Boot time is increased because your system needs to read from the disk, the I needs to load the information into the RAM.




Read more here:

Samsung Magician 4.5 RAPID Mode - Evaluated With Demonstrated Speed Increase | The SSD Review

 

either way you look at it, it still has to be read from the ssd to be cached into ram, the bottleneck doesnt go away no matter what magic wand you wave at it.

 

Just an FYI from one Pro to another for the sake of clarity for everyone. Samsung's own website SSD white paper states - Quote "RAPID consumes at most 25% of the installed DRAM, up to a maximum of 1GB, but willscale down resource usage and eventually revert to a pass-through mode if theCPU core(s) or DRAM is occupied with other system tasks. (This technology is reallydesigned to make use of excess system resources)."