Sata Devices reporting as SCSI, performance issues?

Good evening,

Just installed Windows 7 RTM and my Sata HDD's and DVDRW are reporting as SCSI devices. I would get this problem in XP if I installed the mobo's raid drivers by accident. If I did then the devices would report as SCSI and the dvd burner would report as a cdrom and would not burn or read dvds

Whereas in Windows 7 the burner is reporting as a DVDRW scsi CDrom and will play dvd's and burn them too.

So at the moment there doesn't seem to be any problem however whilst navigating through the control panel I noticed the WEI. So I took a look and it's report my primary hard drive with a score of 5.9. The hard drive is a brand new Western Digital Caviar Black 500gb 32mb cache disk, is this score normal for such a drive?

Also is there anything else to worry about with the devices reporting as SCSI or is okay to leave it like that

System:

Asus p5n-d nforce 750
Intel Quad Q8400 @ 2.66GHz
Asus ATI 4670 1gb
4gb corseair
Western Digital caivar black 500gb
Western Digitial caviar green 1tb

Windows XP device manager:
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Windows 7 device manager
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WEI
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The only way to get a better score on your HDD would be to have either :

1) A 10,000 RPM drive, or for maximum scores,
2) A fast SSD (I have an Intel X-25M and get 7.7 as a score)

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Thanks for the response. So my hard drives reprotig as SCSI aren't having any performance issues then.

Not sure why they are reporting as SCSI, I tried installing the latest drivers from nvidia and asus and still reports as scsi as when using the windows drivers.

Mvrck said:

Thanks for the response. So my hard drives reprotig as SCSI aren't having any performance issues then.

Not sure why they are reporting as SCSI, I tried installing the latest drivers from nvidia and asus and still reports as scsi as when using the windows drivers.

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No problem. Not sure either but they arent slowing anything down. 5.9 is a normal result for 7200 RPM drives.