Samsung RAPID, useful with a cached RAID controller?

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Samsung just announced that it has made RAPID available for the 840 Pro series. I happen to have a 256GB 840 Pro for my main OS drive, and an 840 EVO 250GB for my games, and I run them from an enterprise level RAID controller, a LSI/3ware 9750-8i.

Would it be useful to use RAPID with this controller, or would it not make a difference or even hurt performance? Also, is it even possible? I know it presents the drives to the OS as just a generic LSI drive name, rather than the real drive model. RAPID might not even see that the drives are Samsung drive and fail to run or install.

Does anyone know the answers to these questions?
 
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From http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/samsungssd/downloads/Samsung_Magician_43_Installation_Guide.pdf
3) RAIDmode sets is not supported as an accelerated drive

 
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Alrighty. That answers that part.

I could move the drives from my raid controller onto the Intel SATA controller without having to reinstall. (The beauty of the 3ware controller.) Would it work better with the Intel SATA controller and the RAPID software or keep it on the 3ware? I have several other drives, including a 3X2TB RAID 5 set, on the 3ware controller, so I have to keep it around in any case, but I'm not sure if the caching from the controller would be as good as the caching from RAPID.
 
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