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    Samsung 840 pro users now get rapid

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pathfindercod, Dec 11, 2013.

  1. pathfindercod

    pathfindercod Notebook Virtuoso

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    According to this:

    Samsung 840 Pro Gets RAPID Mode Support | techPowerUp

    Just update the latest magician software and the 840pro supports rapid mode now like evo.

    All mine are in raid 0 so doesn't matter to me, can't use it. But thought I would share for anyone else with this beastly ssd.
     
    pathfindercod, Dec 11, 2013
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    RCB, Dec 11, 2013
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    stege Notebook Consultant

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    Here are some results with Rapid=On on 840 Pro:

    ssd wow.jpg
     
    stege, Dec 12, 2013
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    May I ask if you suffered any slower cold boot or restart time?
     
    RCB, Dec 12, 2013
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    I did, yes. It seems this affects only synthetic benchmarks; didn't notices any real performance improvements, but experienced some slowdowns like mentioned above.
     
    stege, Jan 6, 2014
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    I'd say the drop in boot times is less than 1 second on my W110er, restart times are still as long as ever though, almost longer than simply shutting down and turning back on for Windows 8.1 PRO
     
    Marksman30k, Jan 7, 2014
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