Low Hard Drive Scores on Windows Experience Index

grimreaper said:

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 https://www.sevenforums.com/general-d...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.

I2aMpAnT said:

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....

johngalt said:

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.

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 said:

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.