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Low Windows Experience Index for hard drive
Hi all,
I have a high end PC. Intel Core i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67ghz (dual core) with 8GB DDR3 running Win7 x64. My disk is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200 rpm drive (ST31000333AS) with 32MB cache connected using SATA 3Gb/s. Specs here: ST31000333AS Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1-TB Hard Drive | Seagate
My Windows Experience Index is 7.5 for all categories except for this primary disk drive. The drive only scores 5.9. Considering I think this is a fairly high end system with lots of memory and the cpu power, it seems very odd to me that the drive would score so low - especially compared to the 7.5 scores across the board in the other categories.
Are there any known performance issues with this drive? Or is this score not surprising? Any tips or tricks I can use to speed up the drive and/or troubleshoot this some more to better understand what's slowing it down?
Thanks!