WEI really low for HDD - wasn't in Vista or Windows 7 x86

Curious as to why my HDD scores so low in the WEI of Windows 7 x64.

In the x86 version of Windows 7 (same 7000 build) it scored 5.1, in Vista Ultimate x64 it also scored 5.1 yet in Windows 7 x64 it scores...

....1.9. :shock:

d0od said:

Curious as to why my HDD scores so low in the WEI of Windows 7 x64.

In the x86 version of Windows 7 (same 7000 build) it scored 5.1, in Vista Ultimate x64 it also scored 5.1 yet in Windows 7 x64 it scores...

....1.9. :shock:

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Go to your Hard Drive's properties in Device Manager and Disable "Write Caching" Then rescan, thats what your score would be. Remember to go back and Enable "Write Caching".

I2aMpAnT said:

Go to your Hard Drive's properties in Device Manager and Disable "Write Caching" Then rescan, thats what your score would be. Remember to go back and Enable "Write Caching".

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Disable for a higher score and then go back and enable it. Why?
Does enabled or disabled give better performance? Is the wei hard disk score inaccurate when enabled, if so why?

lappydog said:

Disable for a higher score and then go back and enable it. Why?
Does enabled or disabled give better performance? Is the wei hard disk score inaccurate when enabled, if so why?

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Refer to this

johngalt said:

During Install - it would hang when it was getting set to do the final reboot, and if I forced it (even after waiting 2 hours the first time) W7 gave me an error and asked for me to boot from the DVD and restart my install.

Weird, since Vista never once coughed at my OC - then again, I did have my OC toned down a bit, to 3.21 GHz instead of 3.375, that may also have been a factor....



Yeah, I did that - no change.

But, I figured it out. Thanks to this post http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/1088-7000-leak-14.html#post9814 I found the answer - and I haven't even applied Dave's tweak yet.

Many of us, especially OCers, tend to disable Native Command Queuing in the BIOS - however, I just found out that W7 has it enabled as an option for our SATA controllers. Whether this is from the nVidia drivers or native, I don't know - I suspect native because of the dramatic results I am about to show you:

My original Build 7000 WEI:

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So, seeing Dave's post made me think - perhaps there is another tweak. Sure enough, take a look at your SATA controllers in Device Manager. See the following window captur and the attached Speed Test:

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Now, if you uncheck Command Queuing, initially nothing happens if you run a speed test - because a reboot is required. However, notice the *dramatic* speed changes after removing Command Queuing and the requisite reboot:

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I say that the drop in sustained speed is negligible compared to the *massive* increase in the burst speed - and, as I suspected, the WEI is based more on burst than sustained....

And, finally, my new WEI:

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Again, this is without Dave's tweak - I am going to see if that makes a difference or not - I suspect I'll be back in the 6.9 range with it also performed.

Enjoy, Folks!

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I was also having a really low scoring in hard disk transfer and I'll tell you how I've managed to double it.

My main setup is built over an Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard, an Intel Core Quad Q6600 running at 3 GHz, 4x1GB DDR2 667 MHz of RAM and an ATI HD3650 as my main video card, a rig that keeps me satisfied since I first built it.

This system was running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 in my main OS hard drive (a 320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA II) and Mac OS X 10.5.6 as the secondary operating system in a different hard drive. I've partitioned the main drive and assigned 50 GB to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits Edition, and everything but the LAN driver got installed smoothly and after downloading the driver for the Marvell Yukon NIC from their site I was up & running.

Time to chek the WEI and got a poor 2,9 scoring due to the bottleneck reported in the disk data transfer rate.


I searched the web for some advice and stopped at this post. Tried the suggestions but my setup is built around the Intel ICH8R embeeded in the Intel P965 chipset and it's quite different, so I decided that maybe the cause was the drivers used by Windows 7.

After taking a look inside the Computer Devices I noticed that the system was avoiding the use of AHCI and reported IDE drives running in UDMA mode so I tried to install the Intel Matrix Storage Console from the Intel website. Installed without problems but the scoring remained the same. Using it I can see my 6 SATA ports connected to my 4 hard drives, my Pioneer DVD RW and my LG hybrid HD DVD / Blu-ray and DVD RW unit.


I guessed that maybe I could get running the drivers from the Intel INF Update so I downloaded the ZIP version that you can get in their website. With a bit of patience I selected every item from the Device Management Console and tried updating the driver from the uncompressed directory.

Many of the drivers came updated and after a few minutes, I got everything included in the INF Update Utility applied to their devices, hard drives, SATA controllers, USB controllers, etc...


After rebooting the WEI scoring came up to 5,7 now being the bottleneck the graphic card and not the hard disk transfer rate that is actually double than the original rate, 5.8 instead of 2.9

DeBilbao said:

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Why do your scores have commas instead of periods?

That's a good point, well spotted I2aMpAnT

Mr GRiM said:

That's a good point, well spotted I2aMpAnT

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Have you seen that yet before?

Well mine is not like that and I haven't noticed it before.

Mr GRiM said:

Well mine is not like that and I haven't noticed it before.

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I don't believe I've seen it before. That's why it stood out so much to me. As a media editor/creator such graphical flaws stick out like an ocean on a planet

I2aMpAnT said:

Why do your scores have commas instead of periods?

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I've updated my profile so you can see that I'm from Bilbao, Spain. And although the Windows 7 Beta isn't available in Spanish, it's possible to adapt the Regional and Language Options in the Control Panel.

In the non-english-world the decimal point is comma and the comma is the decimal point, so that's why you see 5,7 instead of 5.7 as the final score.

BTW this is the panel where you can change this settings

DeBilbao said:

I've updated my profile so you can see that I'm from Bilbao, Spain. And although the Windows 7 Beta isn't available in Spanish, it's possible to adapt the Regional and Language Options in the Control Panel.

In the non-english-world the decimal point is comma and the comma is the decimal point, so that's why you see 5,7 instead of 5.7 as the final score.

BTW this is the panel where you can change this settings

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Very interesting, thanks for the information

yes the spanish versions have this instead....

so now by download the the chipset drivers and manually updating them give you a higher score???

i am now thinking this is a more universal solution to those that are using non Nforce chipsets.....

darkassain said:

yes the spanish versions have this instead....

so now by download the the chipset drivers and manually updating them give you a higher score???

i am now thinking this is a more universal solution to those that are using non Nforce chipsets.....

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I just disabled NCQ

your evga uses a Nforce 700 chipset....

people having intel chipsets and such dont have that option (which is why i specified non Nforce chipsets)

darkassain said:

your evga uses a Nforce 700 chipset....

people having intel chipsets and such dont have that option (which is why i specified non Nforce chipsets)

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Oh I know that, I misunderstood what you said lol

darkassain said:

yes the spanish versions have this instead....

so now by download the the chipset drivers and manually updating them give you a higher score???

i am now thinking this is a more universal solution to those that are using non Nforce chipsets.....

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I agree with you. People with Intel Chipsets should try this method and they could get higher scores. It's kind of a manual procedure - you cannot install the INF Updater with the installer - but it's worth every minute invested because the system run smoother and faster.

Thank you for the info, DeBilbao.

Welcome to the forums.

Gary

im guessing this it the only thing stopping john from getting his shinny new i7 system...lol

now there nothing holding him back....

*remembers rocket laucher + machine + i7 rig with telsa cards*

*hides for cover*

DeBilbao said:

I agree with you. People with Intel Chipsets should try this method and they could get higher scores. It's kind of a manual procedure - you cannot install the INF Updater with the installer - but it's worth every minute invested because the system run smoother and faster.

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actually i think you can using some way of automating dpinst (i think thats whats its called...)

I2aMpAnT said:

Why do your scores have commas instead of periods?

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I think it happens when you change decimal symbol from . to , in regional options.