Samsung Magician

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 10:38

Hello folks.

I was wondering is it really worth enabling rapid mode in the Magician software? Does it really give a performance boost or is it just a fad?

Is it worth enabling any other features in the Magician software which claim to improve SSD performance?

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 16:14

Anyone?

HecFam · 14 Dec 2013 at 16:20

I have rapid mode enabled. I'm not too sure what it does. Speeds it up a bit. I don't know the background stuff it does. Run a benchmark before turning it on, turn it on a do another benchmark. It won't make too much impact, couple of MB/s here and there, you probably won't notice much difference, but its nice to know its there.

budwozza · 14 Dec 2013 at 18:03

Cavallino said:
Hello folks.

I was wondering is it really worth enabling rapid mode in the Magician software? Does it really give a performance boost or is it just a fad?

Is it worth enabling any other features in the Magician software which claim to improve SSD performance?

7 Threads down from yours:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18563868

wazza300 · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:36

just a fad,havn't seen it cause any ill affects though so cant hurt to enable it

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:51

budwozza said:
7 Threads down from yours:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18563868

Cheers.

wazza300 said:
just a fad,havn't seen it cause any ill affects though so cant hurt to enable it

Sequential Read Before/After - 535/1161MB/s
Sequential Write Before/After - 534/990MB/s

Random Read (IOPS) 64718/94794
Random Write (IOPS) 41155/93505

Seems to be doing something right I guess.

wazza300 · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:53

yeah but does it feel faster in windows?

might wear out your drive faster tho :confused:

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 20:58

Just another question. If you have an SSD and HDD in your system, should Prefetch/SuperFetch be disabled in Magician software or left enabled?

wazza300 · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:01

its upto you

ssd doesn't use those features according to Samsung magician but your mechanical hdd's might so will help to speed those up

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:02

So best to leave it on I guess!

wazza300 · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:03

yeah ive left mine enabled but upto you really

Cavallino · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:22

Cheers fella.

Have to say iTunes is a little more nippier with Rapid on. Guess its done the trick!

NoNameNoNumber · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:24

Sorry to hijack... How can you stop magician from starting up every time I boot into windows?

kefan77 · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:25

NoNameNoNumber said:
Sorry to hijack... How can you stop magician from starting up every time I boot into windows?

uninstall or edit preferences in start up programs/task scheduler.

or maybe there's a setting in the Magician itself to disable starting on boot.

Rroff · 14 Dec 2013 at 21:29

I removed its boot entry from msconfig IIRC - theres some issues with it where on some configurations it uses DX in a bad way causing games to spit out DX errors or lose context if its running in the background.

I don't reccomend RAPID mode as it increases the chance of data loss albeit it only slightly if you suddenly lose power and only really does anything in a few highly specific applications and does nothing for most useage despite the benchmark numbers.

Cavallino · 15 Dec 2013 at 07:00

I just deleted it from the startup folder in the start menu?

Dervious · 15 Dec 2013 at 19:46

I`ve recently disabled Rapid mode on my system.

I can't say I`ve notice any difference in performance.

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Dec 2013 at 19:49

Cavallino said:
I just deleted it from the startup folder in the start menu?

Yup, that's done the trick

next question- how do you stop it from asking for permission to open the program in certain programs like CPU-z and HW monitor?

Cavallino · 15 Dec 2013 at 21:50

You mean the administrator rights?
I think its good to keep that as a safety net incase you run any "suspect" software by mistake.

HecFam · 15 Dec 2013 at 22:44

You can always disable uac to stop those messages, but that will give anything on your PC full admin rights, without your input. I set mine to the lower setting where I still need to say yes, but it doesn't grey the screen or anything. I think it is set under system in the control panel.