Low Hard Drive Scores on Windows Experience Index

[johngalt]

This setting improves performance, but a power outage or hardware failure may result in data loss, so I would strongly recommend a UPS (power backup supply).

HD score 3.0
Seagates 3X500GB RAID 0
Mobo evga 780i

Wow, this time I *should* post a *search the forums* reminder....

For those folks using nForce based mobos and Seagates for HDs (and quite possibly Maxtors too) see http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/342-show-us-your-wei-16.html#post10171

This allows you to leave write caching on and still get amazing performance out of your drives - as they were meant to be used.

I too have an EVGA board and Seagate drives....coincidence?

Sort of - the coincidence is the Seagates and Maxtors, not the mobo - those with nForce based mobos can do something about it right now without disabling write caching. Those without are stuck waiting, especially if disabling write caching still doesn't help.

TBH, I am beginning to wonder if it has to do with a weird implementation of SMART that I read about a while back - if W7 is misdetecting that SMART implementation as Command Queuing implementation, then this could be the whole reason this is happening....

 

[Soylent]

There are most posts about this topic here: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/342-show-us-your-wei-34.html

 

[grimreaper]

Wow, this time I *should* post a *search the forums* reminder....



This allows you to leave write caching on and still get amazing performance out of your drives - as they were meant to be used.

Got the hint lmao
I left write caching on, anyways I figured out my WEI issue...will post in the appropriate area.

 

[johngalt]

Yeah - the link where I figured out the fix for nForce / Seagate users is on page 16 - then the topic kinda died and then picked back up when you posted, Soylent.

I think I am going to organize all those posts *out* of the WEI thread to make them more accessible as their own sticky.

 

[thescreensavers]

Using a Hitachi Hard Drive here 2.0 rating qq

and It does not support write caching so it was disabled to start with

 

[I2aMpAnT]

Using a Hitachi Hard Drive here 2.0 rating qq

and It does not support write caching so it was disabled to start with

Damn, that's tough, I guess it's more of an issue than Seagate/Maxtor Drives with nForce chipsets.

 

[bala7]

Thanks for the guy who found out this work out to get back my hdd score!! Hats Off!!!. I was really in a confused state since my hdd seagate 320 gb with 16 mb cache gave me 3.0 in win7 32 bit and 2.9 in win7 64 bit... But now i got back my 5.9 in WEI.
One more request..

Can anybody tell me "What is the impact of write caching on WEI and especially basic HDD usage apart from saving data when power failure occurs?"":huh::huh:

 

[whoppergator]

Turn it back on!

Don't forget to turn your write-caching back on after your test! Not only is it important for performance, but after you've turned it off, tested it, and turned it back on, it still is fixed!

So if you really want, turn it off, test, then turn it back on and test again. Should be working now. Bug, but at least there is a fix.

 

[elixir]

HDD : 2.0
maxtor 20Gb
M7VIQ

testing on-going.....

 

[Original Sliice]

Low Sorce For Me Too....

I have a linear read speed of 500MB/s and only getting a HDD score of 6.2.

Gods knows what you need to hit the highest score?

 

[Baddcog]

hmm, I'm gonna retest without write cahcing on myself. My lowest score (5.9) is my hd now
HD 150G|WD 10K 16M SATA WD1500ADFD - OEM

that's a wd raptor 10,000 rpm, 16mb cache, 1.5 g/bit sata drive. Not the new 2.5 with heatsinks, but still, I thought it was supposed to be fast eh? Before I installed win764 pro I had vista 32 home basic and my gpu (nvidia 8600gts was the low point which is now 6.5 (i think it was 5.6 or lower on vista).

eh, so much for that, still at 5.9. Only have 11 gigs free (the primary partition is 50 gigs, OS only). Would the score be low based on space available? I thought it was a speed test.

Doing a little reading I found out that it is only 1.5 g/bit, not 3.0, but everything I read said it didn't matter anyway as that's only short burst from sdram and most desktops will never see the full 1.5 anyway.

 

[Scotty85]

My score...

Here's mine with a run-down of my specs as well. I've never understood why it was so low, and I've got caching turned on already.

Windows7 x64 Ultimate
Asus P6T Motherboard
Intel i7 920 @ 2.67 GHz
12 GB of Corsair RAM @ 1600 MHz (Dominator)
Areca 1210 RAID Controller - PCIe
2 150GB WD Velociraptors in RAID0-Striped (OS... the new 10k 2.5s with heatsinks)
2 320GB Seagate 7200.11 in RAID0 on on-board Intel RAID (Data, My Docs, etc...)
GTX295 nVidia Video
CPU and GPU are water-cooled, but nothing is currently OC'd.
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[derekimo]

Here's mine with a run-down of my specs as well. I've never understood why it was so low, and I've got caching turned on already.

Windows7 x64 Ultimate
Asus P6T Motherboard
Intel i7 920 @ 2.67 GHz
12 GB of Corsair RAM @ 1600 MHz (Dominator)
Areca 1210 RAID Controller - PCIe
2 150GB WD Velociraptors in RAID0-Striped (OS... the new 10k 2.5s with heatsinks)
2 320GB Seagate 7200.11 in RAID0 on on-board Intel RAID (Data, My Docs, etc...)
GTX295 nVidia Video
CPU and GPU are water-cooled, but nothing is currently OC'd.
.
.

Welcome Scotty85, You might want to post that over here,http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/342-show-us-your-wei.html That's where everybody is posting their scores.

 

[scrooge]

not sure if this is going to help or not but.
i had my system overclocked and was getting 5.9 on the ssd harddrive (patiot ps-100 f/w 300).just for the hell
of it i reset the system and cleared out the old wei data and now the harddrive gets 6.8 . i reran it 3 times
and got the same score.
Scrooge