Weirdly high benchmarks?

[Raynold]

So, I got my Samsung 840 EVO a few months ago and benchmarked (with the Samsung Magician Software) it then. The benchmark showed results around advertised performance. Today, I ran the benchmark again (cause I was bored) and it shows this.

 

Is the Samsung benchmarking utility known for screwing up? Just asking. 

(Or maybe my SSD gots mad speedz  )

[Godlygamer23]

That's because of RAM caching. That speed is not ordinarily possible because of the SATAIII bandwidth limitation.

[Geekazoid]

That's because of RAM caching. That speed is not ordinarily possible because of the SATAIII bandwidth limitation.

Tis right ^.

[EmeraldFlame]

Is the Samsung benchmarking utility known for screwing up? Just asking. 

 

You have "Rapid Mode" enabled. This takes data that your going to read or write and temporarily places it in RAM which gives you the insanely high speeds, with the trade off of possible data loss in a power outage, that you are seeing in their bench marking software. The amount of RAM it uses is relatively small and it can't really keep that kind of speed up for very long, but for small writes, and small frequent reads it can help out a ton. 

[Raynold]

You have "Rapid Mode" enabled. This takes data that your going to read or write and temporarily places it in RAM which gives you the insanely high speeds, with the trade off of possible data loss in a power outage, that you are seeing in their bench marking software. The amount of RAM it uses is relatively small and it can't really keep that kind of speed up for very long, but for small writes, and small frequent reads it can help out a ton. 

Isn't that what normal storage does though? Reading from the storage into the RAM? What's the difference? (Sorry if its obvious :C)

[Godlygamer23]

Isn't that what normal storage does though? Reading from the storage into the RAM? What's the difference? (Sorry if its obvious :C)

Not in the same way. Caching into RAM allows the CPU to read information that is on the SSD in RAM instead, rather than having to retrieve it from the SSD first.