Best Windows Experience Index - Hard Drive?

[ckershner]

It may not be accurate, but at least it gives everybody somthing to compare to. Do you know of an accurate system rating program or do you use multiple programs?

 

[Lloydday]

Here's mine using 3x 640GB WD in RAID 0

 

[Techymike]

I do not know of any accurate system tool. Honestly I just look for new items to tweak my system to make it faster and do more of what I use the PC for. Today I was checking out the new Radeon 6990 video card but did not feel like shelling out the $700 price tag. I was intending on getting a second Galaxy GTX 480 as they were on sale and had an $80 rebate taking the price down to $299. I was told they were all sold out but did get a rain check.

 

[dan2]

7.7

The SSD's make a world of difference; think I'll wait until a while before buidling another rig... Windows 8 and i8's?

Plenty fast enough for the time being very afordable with second hand i7's too.

Some cool system tools include:

CPUID CPU-Z
CPUID HWMonitor
MSI Afterburner

 

[philhu]

Here is mine i7-970 OC to 3.7G, Watercooled, 6Gig memory, Crossfire ATI-5770 cards, 2 WD 750G Black drives in RAID-1 config!

 

[boogieboy]

got 5.9 on my Caviar Black as well and it was 5.9 on Blue too

 

[Coke Robot]

Yeah, that is because of the hard drive being a hard drive. No matter if it's in a RAID 0,1, or 5, or a 10,000 RPM drive with 64 MB cache, it's simply not going to be higher than 5.9 in WEI. The only way to get a higher rating is switching to solid state drives.

The reason I guess why is because Microsoft might have ulterior motives with vista/7 and trying to promote the use of SSDs because it's super uber faster than any hard drive. And also, Windows performs quite quickly with a SSD than a hard drive.

 

[Ishtara]

The SSD's make a world of difference; ...

I wish I have an 80 GB Intel X18-M. According to a HD benchmark tool, it's about three times faster than my two ordinary 7500 rpm harddisks. But Windows 7 doesn't boot any faster, and my experience index is... tadaaa.... 5.9

 

[Ishtara]

Here is the results of the new Revodrive testing. THis is just crazy to see!

Wow :shock: For comparison, here is my lame Intel SSD (on the left). This shows that not all SSDs are made equal.

 

[hybridfan]

I am stuck with 5.9 for my primary hard disk even loading WOW it can be a bit sluggish at times, I'm sure a SSD would be a better choice but just bought a GTX OC 460 so maybe next month.

 

[shiphorns]

I made one of the drives on my Mac Pro into a Windows 7 Pro x64 boot drive, and it also shows the hard drive as being the lowest-scoring component. This is a relatively inexpensive 320GB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200 rpm SATA drive.

Is the concensus that this test is not particularly indicative of performance? It seems odd to have the exact score of 5.9 across so many systems, rather than a normal distribution.

 

[Kipper]

5.9 is the max score for any system running a spinning Hard Drive. Even using Intel's smart Response with the Z68 chipsets with an SSD for caching and a 7200RPM spinner you will only see a 5.9 score but you will really notice a big time real world jump in speed; makes the system really snapping.

 

[Sedril]

I got a 6.4 with my 4 x 1tb Western Digital Blacks... So, having spinners can go past 5.9

My SSD scores 7.8 so it's just that SSD's score way better, Probably because of the access time being so low, cause I know my 4x1tb raid 0 can transfer at over 600mb/s which my SSD can't do....

 

[AntiSilence]

5.9 is the max score for any system running a spinning Hard Drive. Even using Intel's smart Response with the Z68 chipsets with an SSD for caching and a 7200RPM spinner you will only see a 5.9 score but you will really notice a big time real world jump in speed; makes the system really snapping.

Hi Kipper... I've just got an Intel Z68 based board (Asus P8Z68-V Pro) and have a Western Digital Caviar Black (64Mb cache) HDD, and while it's fast, I was thinking of getting an SSD for the Smart Response caching.

Aside from the WEI score, do you see a real-world result that makes it's worth trying?

 

[Maxxwire]

The 120 GB Intel 320 SSD that was installed in my HP HPE Desktop after the original 1TB Hitachi HDD crashed after only 8 months boosted the Disc WEI from 5.9 to 7.7.

 

[android 17]

processor - 7.8, Memory - 7.9, Graphics - 7.9, Gaming graphics - 7.9, Primary Hard Disk WAS 7.6 with my 60 gig SSD, but it fell to 5.9 after I stuck in my larger HDD. I can't say that I have a right to complain, but seeing it drop like that is a little miff-worthy.

Intel i7 3930K - stock
Gigabyte X79 UD3 board
8 gigs ram
60 gig ADATA ssd
500 gig SATA3 HDD (seagate, I believe)
2 HIS AMD 6950s

It's got good bones, even if I had to skimp a little to stay under budget. I'd like to fix that 5.9, but I fear that would mean a larger SSD, and I'm not ready for that.

 

[Maxxwire]

I'm running a LaCie 2TD eSATA Raid 0 HDD and it doesn't affect the performance of the Intel 320 SSD at all.

 

[Reelix]

Necroing the thread for great justice!

 

[clasof56]

try enabling superfetch. someone mentioned that and i tried it and went from 5.9 to 6.7...