Windows 7: HDD only gets a 7 rating of 5.9

how do i get a higher score than 5.9 on my hdd as that the only thing holding back my score from being 7.3? i heard i need a SSD to get it higher is this correct?

You can't improve your hard drive's WEI rating without buying a new better one.

An SSD would be a sure fire way of getting your system rating up but I'm sure there are some high RPM hard drives that can do that too.

To be honest though a WEI of 5.9 will sure as fire run just about any piece of software you want 2 fold.

You have to remember that this is just a number and and will not drag your system performance down too much anyway, the only noticeable difference I would see from having a better WEI scoring HDD/SSD would be boot speed and local file transfer rates.

Oli

yeah my pc is super fast now lol just i was unhappy that it was only the hdd holding the score back

I have never felt that the score was very important anyway, because the score is determined by the lowest subscore.

Highest score for HDDs is 5.9. You could possible scrape a 6.0 with RAID, but generally SSDs are needed for higher scores.

Though don't think just because your HDD scores 5.9 it's holding your computer back. My WD Caviar Black scores 5.9, and it's still performs great.

I think almost all Sata Drives that are of good quality score a 5.9. All of mine do.
Even with a RAID 0 setup.
I have not seen any that were higher than 5.9

The WEI score would be good if they would actually use them for Games, certain software, etc.
Would make it easier for the average joe to determine if his system can handle it or not.
That was the original intent of the WEI score.

Yea Microsoft were all for just using a number system to determine whether or not a computer could run a game, but the system they put in doesn't exactly work well by going off the lowest score. Like Halo 2 PC uses this and you need a certain rating to be able to play it. A friend of mine tried it on his laptop, which is more than capable of playing games, but his HDD was just below what the overall score was, so obviously his laptop took this rating, and wasn't able to play it.

Ouch!

No kidding. Thats what my HDD scores, but I have no trouble running multiple higher end apps simultaneously

No way. I played Halo 2 on a Radeon 9500 and a P4 2.23 (oldest model) system. CPU scores at 2.4, memory at 3.6, VCard at around 2-3 ish. And I managed to played it (average of 16 FPS of course, but I can handle it :P)

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Maximum you can get for standard HDDs is 5.9, even on a raid system. You could take a look at
%systemroot%\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore\xxxx-xx-xx xx.xx.xx.xxxx Disk.Assessment (Initial).WinSAT

for a more detailed view. You'll be happy to know what your real score should have been in there.

Edit: Under <metrics><diskmetrics>