Recent content by JakeGrath

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    SSD 850 evo 500gigs insane speeds?

    1984...you have almost 20 years of experience with computers over me. Interesting to look back though, I bought an external Seagate HD for around 100 dollars with a capacity of 1.5tb back in 2011, and its mechanical. Yesterday I bought my 500GB SSD for around 140, and I could say that it was at...
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    SSD 850 evo 500gigs insane speeds?

    Thank you for the speedy response, it was very informative and I am not as worried anymore. I've only recently learned of RAM Disks, actually tinkered with that a bit before upgrading to SSD. I did notice similar performance benchmarks when I tested the Ramdisk speeds, however, having a laptop...
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    SSD 850 evo 500gigs insane speeds?

    Okay, so yesterday I installed my first SSD, took a while but I managed to figure things out and get it properly installed. Before enabling Rapid Mode, the speeds were consistent with whats advertised in the specs, however after enabling, I did benchmarks with the Samsung Magician and...