Why are my EVO 120GB SSD benchmark results sooo high?

[bgvlad]

Can anyone explain to me how this is possible?🙂



https://www.dropbox.com/s/fn2esbtxt0bx6pc/samsung%20ssd%20benchmark%20VB.JPG

 

[Elixer]

Looks like a bug in the software, or there is some extreme caching going on.

 

[Dahak]

Is Rapid Mode turned on? if so that will cause the results to be high

 

[h9826790]

It's because the RAPID mode was on.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I don't know if it's a testament to Samsung and their software developers, or to the OP's luck for flipping the right switches without knowing what they are for . . . and no insult meant to the OP.

I don't think RAPID activates itself without user intervention. But a user could "intervene" without understanding the result that would follow.

We've been all over RAPID and other Ram-Cache software like flies on a dead bunny-rabbit, nor will more posts and threads on the topic irritate me.

As long as your RAM has been tested, your system is stable and reliable, it is a helpful feature. The critics say that it "only improves benchmarks," but that's not really true. For an end-user who establishes "habits" in computing practice, it has positive benefits. And it is a way to leverage all that RAM that you thought you wanted, but which seldom gets full utilization.

I'm still trying to decide whether to buy Primo-CAche or Super-Cache for my computer(s) fitted with Crucial SSDs.

There is also a trick with a registry edit to increase the size of Windows' file-level caching. I rather doubt that it would have the impact of RAPID or the other programs.

 

[bgvlad]

Thanks very much for your input!

I had enabled RAPID in hopes of speeding up the previously awful R/W tests of less than 100mb/s.

It turns out that having the SSD encrypted via True Crypt was the culprit of the extremely poor bench-marking results. Once I decrypted it, I got the ridiculously high results shown in my original post.

Here is the test with RAPID turned off:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5trjvyrl6qarqhk/2014-08-12 16_36_22-Samsung Magician.png

Do ya'll recommend keeping RAPID turned off?

Thanks again!

 

[h9826790]

It's your own choice, there is nothing wrong to use RAPID mode as long as you have enough RAM to play around.

 

[beginner99]

Do ya'll recommend keeping RAPID turned off?

For writing yes unless you have an good, and tested UPS. Else if you loose power you will a) loose data and b) risk disk corruption meaning you would have to reinstall windows.