Considering the nature of the error message, I'd say the codecs were the one that worked, lol.
As for the HDD score, Windows won't go above 5.9 as long as it's not an SSD. So unless you want to go spend money on some SSDs, don't let yourself get bothered by the 5.9 score that much.
If you want, you can go look at the following file for a complete breakdown of your score
Code:
"C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\xxxx-xx-xx xx.xx.xx.xxx Disk.Assessment (Recent).WinSAT.xml"
If you look at the following values (this is from my non-raid score), you would notice that the one you have deserves more than a 5.9
Quote:
-<DiskMetrics>
<AvgThroughput score="6.3" ioSize="65536" units="MB/s" kind="Sequential Read">86.10125</AvgThroughput>
<AvgThroughput score="4.0" ioSize="16384" units="MB/s" kind="Random Read">1.53000</AvgThroughput>
<Responsiveness score="5.7" units="ms/IO" factor="0.0" Kind="AverageIORate">4.21000</Responsiveness>
<Responsiveness score="7.4" units="units" factor="0.0" Kind="GroupedIOs">8.62606</Responsiveness>
<Responsiveness score="7.3" units="units" factor="0.0" Kind="LongIOs">10.32952</Responsiveness>
<Responsiveness score="6.8" units="units" factor="0.0" Kind="Overall">89.10314</Responsiveness>
..and the line that makes it impossible to go above 5.9:
Quote:
<Responsiveness Kind="Cap" Reason="PASSED">FALSE</Responsiveness>
(Oh yeah, and I heard SATA III is fast; haven't tested it, but worth a try)