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Not that the WEI means much, but mine is only 7.1 too.
nate, I think you worry too much and give the WEI more credit than it deserves.
That score is not indicating a bottleneck on your system. People spend way too much time on that number I'm afraid. You can clearly see the MASSIVE difference between a mechanical drive (which would score a 5.9) and this SSD (which your case is a 6.8). Your drive is not bottlenecking your computer.
ahci makes quite the difference so make sure you are using it. It bumped mine from 7.4 to 7.8 (6.6 to 6.9 on my old adata s596). Also I have noticed that if I set the drives to sleep my score drops over time (down to 7.6). With drive sleep disabled my score returns to normal after a day or two and stays there. Weird but thought it might help