Because it interferes with the direct read/write feature, you won't ever get an accurate result and the benchmark is essentially running against your RAM, not your SSD. If you need to run any performance tests on your drive you'll need to disable Rapid Mode first, restart your PC, then run the tests. You can verify this by opening the application up and you'll see the button under Rapid Mode now says on. Magician will now force your PC to restart and when it comes back up Rapid Mode will be enabled. Once you're happy to restart the PC and apply Rapid Mode, click yes at the next dialog box. Once you've downloaded and installed Samsung Magician follow these steps:Įnsure the supported drive is selected from the drop-down box.Ĭlick yes when the description message pops up. It's worth having this if you're using any Samsung SSD, as it's an easy way to keep firmware up to date, keep tabs on drive health and performance and even securely erase it if you're going to be replacing it. The first thing you have to do is download the free (and quite useful) Samsung Magician application. Turning on Rapid Mode is extremely simple. As well as this and 2GB of RAM, your PC must also be running Windows 7 or later.
My 750 Evo isn't listed, but has full support for Rapid Mode.įor this you're limited to SATA drives, which includes the 2.5-inch size and some of the non-NVMe m.2 drives like the 860 Evo. Samsung's official listings show the wide variety of SSDs supporting Rapid Mode, but they don't seem to be all encompassing. So if you're using a 960 or 970 series SSD, you can end right here.
The newest, and fastest NVMe drives from Samsung cannot use Rapid Mode.
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