Best Windows Experience Index - Hard Drive?

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  1. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
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    Best Windows Experience Index - Hard Drive?


    I'm curious to see what kind of numbers people have gotten for the primary hard disk data transfer rate. Under Vista I scored 5.9 on all tests as it was as high as the numbers would go.

    After a clean install of Win7 Ultimate, I was quite surprised to find my primary hard disk score remained at a 5.9. My boot drive is made up of 2 10,000RPM cheetah SATA drives in a RAID stripe (RAID0). I'm wondering if this test is still maxed out at 5.9. If you got higher than 5.9, what kind of drive are you using? I'm sure SSD's score higher.

    Cheers.
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  2. Posts : 45
    Windows 7 Ultimate
       #2

    landozelig said:
    I'm curious to see what kind of numbers people have gotten for the primary hard disk data transfer rate. Under Vista I scored 5.9 on all tests as it was as high as the numbers would go.

    After a clean install of Win7 Ultimate, I was quite surprised to find my primary hard disk score remained at a 5.9. My boot drive is made up of 2 10,000RPM cheetah SATA drives in a RAID stripe (RAID0). I'm wondering if this test is still maxed out at 5.9. If you got higher than 5.9, what kind of drive are you using? I'm sure SSD's score higher.

    Cheers.
    I also did a clean install of Win7 Ultimate and scored 5.9 for my HDD. My boot drive is Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM. One of the fastest SATA hard drives made.
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  3. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    oldspook said:
    I also did a clean install of Win7 Ultimate and scored 5.9 for my HDD. My boot drive is Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM. One of the fastest SATA hard drives made.
    That's why I'm thinking it may be capped at 5.9 as it was in Vista - or you need a SSD to go past it.
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  4. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #4

    It's not capped at 5.9. Every section of the assessment can reach 7.9, but like you say, you'd need a ssd to reach higher levels pretty much. It just doesn't seem to go higher than that for HDDs. I've seen some that have it, not sure where, but this thread is the place to look.

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  5. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    7.9? Dang, I need to do some upgrades
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  6. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
       #6

    7.9 is the max level with Windows 7. Unlike 5.9 max in Vista.
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  7. Posts : 2
    windows 7 home premium
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    Custom built rig and getting higher than 5.9 boys!


    Read all this and interested to know about scores so setting a benchmark. My spec is

    Windows 7 Home Premium
    Core i7 965 Extreme @ 3.68GHz
    12 GB DDR3 RAM 1600 GHz
    Nvidia GTX 295 X 2 Quad Sli
    OCZ Vertex 128GB SSD - Boot Drive
    300GB Velociraptor 10,000 RPM
    1TB Samsung 7,200 RPM
    Silverstone TJ07 Water cooled rig

    Scores in Windows Experience Index

    7.6
    7.7
    7.9
    7.9
    6.6 Hard Disc

    Overall score 6.6 improved from 6.4 after cleaning SSD and installing some old software.

    Cheers boys beat this!
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  8. Posts : 18,404
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1
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    Nice specs s matthews. Welcome aboard.
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  9. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Proffesional
       #9

    My vertex that I bought( and returned for a agility instead to save $100 plus get the same performance) gave me a 7.2 on build 7600 last week. The agility and official windows 7 should be in later this week.
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  10. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #10

    7.4 with my Intel X25-M Gen 2 drive. This was before the firmware upgrade which incuded TRIM support and faster sequential write performance. Will have to check at some point to see if that made any change to the results.

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