I'm not sure but it may be a Seagate and it's fairly old, well a year and a half old but it is only SATA1 and it does have a smaller cache then my newer one, is there some way of checking the spec without having to pull it out and look?
go to your device manager
There on the harddisk should be letters and numbers like john posted...
something like ST######
Hmmm - The part after the initial WDC and before the - is your model number - you can find the exact specs over at WD's site.
I am pretty sure, though, the 250 is either an 8 or a 16 MB Cache HD....
yep it is
WD Caviar® Blue™
250 GB, 3 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
With SATA and EIDE interfaces, cache sizes ranging from 2 MB to 16 MB, WD Caviar Blue drives offer a full range of performance features. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Interface:
SATA 3 Gb/s EIDE 100 MB/s
Cache Size: 16 MB 8 MB 2 MB
Capacities:
750 GB640 GB500 GB400 GB320 GB250 GB160 GB80 GB40 GB
Model: WD2500AAJS
Can't believe though that he is getting better scores on his system with those drives than I am on my system on my drives lol....
WEI is obviously selective in handing out good scores....
The 250GB drive is what I have Vista installed on and 150GB drive has Windows 7 and that is the older one, in Vista I get a 5.9 on the 250GB drive.
I get a 5.9 in Vista as well, but my dual 500 GB drives, one of which has nothing but W7 on it, should be out powering your 160 pretty easily - it has 3 times the capacity and 4 times the cache....and is a SATA II....
And yet our WEIs are the same for the HDs.
Hence, my saying that the WEI is freaky....
I agree 100% and not sure about the memory scores either, considering I have 4 Gigs of Patriot Low Latency 800Mhz DDR2 RAM, although I have it at 5.4.4.12 with my overclock for stability.
Right now my RAM is running at 5-5-5-15-2T @ 800 - All my OC is off and my ReaperX HPC does not have a JEDEC standard for running at 500 (1000 DDR) so it defaults to 800 until I manually set it - but I had to remove the OC to get 700 installed, so I saved my settings to a profile and then loaded the BIOS defaults - it was faster than changing things by hand
So, technically, your RAM is running faster than mine.
