16GB of RAM upgrade and WEI memory score unchanged

[jimbo45]

Hi there
surprised at the low Disk score -- most people with SSD's get this up to at least around 7 --some even over 7.5.

Here's mine

SSD is 120 GB OCX VERTEX plus (I now buy samsung M3's which are even better).

Laptop Sony VAIO VPCEH processor Intel I5 memory 8 GB.

My Disk rating is 7.2 -- and that's even re-running while I was downloading an update to vmware workstation (8.0.4).

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Cheers
jimbo

 

[Zepher]

That score was before the crucial 128gb, 256gb, and 16gb were installed.

 

[Layback Bear]

You are correct jimbo45. After getting off of my duff and Googling I also discovered that it's a Hybrid hhd. You are also correct, a true SSD would wake that laptop up a bunch.
Warning to all. Once you get a SSD you will want more of them. They are habit forming.

 

[cluberti]

Indeed , and it's still an expensive habit. Grabbed a 256GB and 512GB for the laptop this weekend (demo Hyper-V box). Cost me about double what spinners would have cost, but I can't go back now that I'm spoiled by SSDs in my other boxes...

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[Zepher]

You are correct jimbo45. After getting off of my duff and Googling I also discovered that it's a Hybrid hhd. You are also correct, a true SSD would wake that laptop up a bunch.
Warning to all. Once you get a SSD you will want more of them. They are habit forming.

I see no mention of hybrid drives, besides Jim's post.
The listing in the ops specs show an 80gb SSD & a 750gb 7200rpm drive.
The hybrids have small 8gb of NAND chips incorporated on the circuit board.

 

[Layback Bear]

Well I can be wrong again,(still) but this is what I found.
Intel® Solid-State Drive 310 Series ? Compact Size, Big Performance
It would be nice if the O/P would let us know.

 

[Wrend]

I see 2 drives listed, 80gb SSD and a 750gb 7200rpm spinner.

I went from 8 to 16 and my Wei stated the same...

Part of this may be that unless you're running something additional that can actually make use of that much RAM, you're not going to see any real improvement in system performance, even for the un-modded high-end gaming of today. 8GB is more than enough for typical use (gaming included).

...An SSD will improve even the most modest system BEYOND RECOGNITION...

SSDs are good for fast boots, but for real performance boosts on high-end systems for frequent reads and/or writes, check out RAM drives. (Yes, you can actually use that extra RAM for something, at least.) Here is a good general explanation by JJ from ASUS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqfhZvyE80

 

[Heretikos]

Since we're talking about SSD's, man... I don't like not being able to run ccleaner with the 35 passes. I don't like not being able to totally wipe the free space and render it gone and other security settings my privacy suites do. I'm not having any luck, but surely there's a way to totally remove elements from your SSD for good without wearing it's life down. If anyone knows anything holla...

 

[Heretikos]

Ok, I've read up on this a bit. Seems like everyone is going for them for the speed. But when it comes to privacy and security, there's next to nothing you can do. I just think that's strange, the newest hottest thing can't securely erase files.

 

[Zepher]

If you are so worried about privacy, keep the drives or physically destroy them.

 

[Brds7t7]

I'm not sure about SSD's when it comes to privacy but I'm getting one to put Windows 7 and keeping my personal data on my spinners. Why don't you try that?
I've got nothing that really needs wiping on my System Drive.
I think a lot of people now put their O/S on their SSD for performance but keep their personal data on the spinners.

 

[pparks1]

If you are so worried about privacy, keep the drives or physically destroy them.

Exactly, easy solution.

I think a lot of people now put their O/S on their SSD for performance but keep their personal data on the spinners.

I say put whatever you can onto the SSD. When it comes to data though, there is usually very little benefit to the extra sped from the SSD on data files....at least not enough to justify the price per MB cost compared to mechanical hard drives. The reason people put data on spinners is because they offer far more capacity, for a lower cost and provide enough speed.

 

[Zepher]

Updated with the 2 Crucial M4 SSD's, C & D drives.

 

[a66gt40]

I upgraded from 8gb ddr2 800 to new board 16gb ddr3 1600 and my score stayed at 7.4 don't understand that even when I overclock it, it stays the same

 

[logicearth]

I upgraded from 8gb ddr2 800 to new board 16gb ddr3 1600 and my score stayed at 7.4 don't understand that even when I overclock it, it stays the same

Even if the memory is running at a higher speed, the AMD Phenom processor is still limited by itself on how fast it can access the memory which will affect benchmarks. Which is DDR3-1333. As an example, my new system I just got, has 16GBs of DDR3-1600 in a quad channel config. The processor's memory controllor supports DDR3-1600 allowing it to access memory at that speed. I get 7.9 in WEI all around.

Again, you can install faster memory, but you are limited by the memory controller the processor uses.

 

[a66gt40]

Thanks I never thought of that. So if I go with this (
ASROCK 990FX Extreme 3 motherboard; AMD FX-8150 3.6ghz CPU 8 Core

My score should go up.