I did a forum search and didn't find anything about rapid mode so I thought I might create a post about it in case it's useful to someone.
I purchased two EVO 860's last week, they're great drives, however I only just stumbled across Samsung's Rapid Drive tech, I didn't know
of its existence until now. You'll lose 1GB of RAM to Rapid Mode, the drive apparently uses it as a buffer to create nice efficient fast sequential
read and writes. Rapid mode is available on EVO's dating all the way back to the 400 series.
Samsung software:
Link
I have one of the 500GB EVO's solely dedicated to DCS and its saved games folder and that is the drive I enabled Rapid Mode.
(*Note: The reason I say this is as far as I can tell, you can only enable RM on 1x EVO drive per system?).
Here's a pre-rapid mode screenshot from last week:
And from 15 minutes ago after enabling Rapid Mode
(Same EVO drive, I changed the designation from F: to E)
Slight jump on the read and writes I'd say o.0 , most definitely very noticeable in-game, zero in-game loading stutters thus far, smoooooth.
If you have an EVO and want to enable RM on your drive, install their software, launch, and the rest is pretty self-explanatory.
Also, you may as well update your firmware whilst in the console if it's old, takes about 15 seconds+reboot. :)
Hopefully this is useful to some of you guys with EVO's that may be unaware of Rapid Mode, as I was....
Cheers
Ntro