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I've FINALLY moved to an ssd and I must say it feels great even on sata 2!  :lol:

 

Looking around the magician software there is something called Rapid Mode for my SSD. It's currently disabled. What does it do and how would it benefit me?

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What, why sata 2? Don't you have any sata 3 ports on your motherboard?

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What, why sata 2? Don't you have any sata 3 ports on your motherboard?

He has a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

 

No Sata 3 support (only two Sata 2 ports)

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He has a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3

 

No Sata 3 support (only two Sata 2 ports) 

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What?

 

WHAT DID I DO?  :lol:

He's gonna hax my jigahertz with my mobo details!  :ph34r:

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He's gonna hax my jigahertz with my mobo details!  :ph34r:

LOL that gave me a good smile xD

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I've FINALLY moved to an ssd and I must say it feels great even on sata 2!  :lol:

 

Looking around the magician software there is something called Rapid Mode for my SSD. It's currently disabled. What does it do and how would it benefit me?

It uses some of your memory to create a RAM disk that acts as a cache for the SSD.

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as stated before it makes a cache of some of your ram space.

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is it like 1gBs or 1000mBs read or write speed. Since rapid uses part of your system memory as cache for the drive any synthetic test will also use the drive and system memory as cache. Its crazy fast because ram is crazy fast. I would get even better results with rapid if I had 2133 mhz memory or higher. Right now I'm using 1600 mhz 

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So it's best to turn on "RAPID" mode on Samsung SSDs ?

 

Will it have negative effects on the SSD itself in the long-term ?!

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So it's best to turn on "RAPID" mode on Samsung SSDs ?

 

Will it have negative effects on the SSD itself in the long-term ?!

not onl samsung ssds but really every ssd

 

and no negative effects

 

 

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What, why sata 2? Don't you have any sata 3 ports on your motherboard?

It's okay, he'll only be bottlenecked in sequential transfers. You still get the same zippiness on an SSD, and would even on SATA I, though you'd have a hard time finding used boards with those ports on them.

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not onl samsung ssds but really every ssd

 

and no negative effects

 

Yes, there are. RAPID uses RAM. For people who actually need every last 0 and 1 of RAM, thats not acceptable. 

 

RAID 0 is a smarter way to do it. 

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not onl samsung ssds but really every ssd

 

and no negative effects

Sure there are. Power loss for example would cause data loss

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Ram cache and since you only have sata ii you may not be able to enable it.

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