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I thought testing the Samsung with rapid mode was deceiving and not indicative of real World performance , what are the differences without rapid mode enabled .
This is how i understood it :
The max actual transfer speed of a sata III port is around 475-515 MB/s, depending on your motherboard and several other things, but that is around the max even the fastest SSD can transfer data. The benchmark scores are really nothing but show. What an OS SSD does is the 4kb read speeds and access times. No matter if my Raid score is way faster than your score, but look at only the 4kb read speed and the access times. There is only slight differences.
I will bet you if I took my Raid set up and put it in your machine and didn't tell you, you would turn your computer on the next day and notice no difference in actual usage. That is how much difference benchmark scores matter. So, don't be discouraged because yours benchmark lower than others. It does not matter at all in actual usage. I have 2 or 3 Crucial drives, in other machines.
This Samsung 840 Pro will eat them alive in any benchmark you want them to run. In actual usage, there is little to no difference. Sometimes I can tell a slight difference, but 95% of the time there is none. I don't like raid and don't like running it and advise everyone else not to. The only reason I did it is I have 2 X 256GB SSDs. My OS takes up about 40-45GB which leaves a lot of wasred space, but my Games or data will not fit on the other 256 GB drive or on the extra space of my OS drive. So, basically I have a whole lot of expensive space left over and pretty much useless, for the way I want to organize things.
So, I raided them to give me close to about 480-485GB. With that space, I can run my OS and games on the 2 SSDs. But, I am taking a big risk, but I backup every night and only have the OS and games on the raid. So, if one died today, it would cost me a clean install which I have down to a fine science. I could be up and functional in an hour after the updates are finished, and most of those I have in the ISO I use for installs. Just so you understand. Benchmarks mean nothing but bragging rites. There are only 2 numbers that really matter.