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If you're using a motherboard with an Intel chipset and SATA drives in AHCI mode, it's likely that you're using Microsoft's Windows 7 default driver and you should install the one that comes with Intel INF Update utility.
I talked about this in this post and after installing the driver my hard disk scoring in WEI came up from 2.9 to 5.8!
This is my WEI score before, using the native Windows 7 driver (displaying the decimal point as comma because I'm using spanish regional settings)
And this one after installing the Intel INF Update with the method described here
BTW, this is the actual scoring in my main setup:
ASUS P5B Deluxe
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz @ 3GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM (2x1GB Team Extreme 667MHz + 2x1GB GSkill 800 MHz)
O.S. Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (320 GB SATA II)
ASUS EAH3650 SILENT HTDI/512M (Radeon HD3650)