Show us your SSD performance 2

Nice one, Jack.

Intel's were never known to be the fastest dog in the race.
First time I have ever tested it. It works great and the Intel Tool box gives a 100%.

When I get in the mood I will test my Samsung.

Rapid mode uses system Ram as well. I don't think people report a "seat of the pants feel" increase when using it. Tests seem to say it works in some cases, but not others.

A closer look at RAPID DRAM caching on the Samsung 840 EVO SSD - The Tech Report - Page 1

Samsung Magician 4.5 RAPID Mode - Evaluated With Demonstrated Speed Increase | The SSD Review

It won't speed up boot, and may slow it a bit. I didn't enable it myself. A Guy

In my opinion, Bill is exactly correct. It will give some terrific benchmark scores, but I did not find any difference in actual usage. I think the reason is that the speed of an SSD is in the 4kb read speed and the access times. Those numbers do not change much, if at all. The rest of the numbers on benchmarks go up tremendously, but 99% of us will never see those numbers. That's my take on it.

Did anyone run this test on a Intel 730 yet ?
I looked back a few pages and did not see any so far.

Intel 730 Series Bench Mark_Utility AS-SSD

Found this entire thread a very interesting read.

Larry

This is an article worth reading. And let's retain it for those that still have doubts about the SSD reliability and those that shut off all kinds of services because they are afraid of the writes.

The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead - The Tech Report - Page 1

Good article, Wolfgang.