

Samsung has talked about the potential of allowing RAPID to use even more memory and that seems sensible considering how common it is for high-end systems to have 16GB or more of RAM these days - much of which goes unused. When caching doesn't work - as is often the case in our experience - you're left with sluggish disk speeds, so it has made more sense for most enthusiasts to just spring for a decent primary SSD alongside a secondary storage HDD.īesides losing up to a gig of memory, the primary disadvantage of Samsung's RAPID technology is the chance of data loss if the power goes out, which is probably why the technology is disabled by default. In a typical caching setup (let's say a low capacity Crucial Adrenaline SSD paired with an HDD), you only really experience a boost on tasks that are repeated several times, so you're stuck with bottom of the barrel performance more often than not. There's no only reason I can think of which would affect your system that way, by just having Samsung Magician running in background.We've been left with a poor impression of most caching technologies, but Samsung's RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O Data) is different in that it uses system memory. Disable it if it is, as that's an active task which would affect the entire system. If you want to reinstall it, check if that is on or not. I use Samsung Magician on a 850 PRO SSD and have never had any issues, except I don't use the Rapid Mode on it. It's a have, and personally I see little to no point in using it, other than to give a faked illusion of more performance (which happens to be more unstable as well on quite a few system, which is why they leave it disabled as default). For benchmarking it appears good, but actually in real-world performance, just slows down your boot, adds another background process, and doesn't speed up game performance or anything majorly useful. Forces the SSD to use Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O Data. However, that isn't Samsung Magician itself, but rather a side feature it has.
