Show Us Your WEI (2)

[A Guy]

It's a conspiracy!! I'd imagine most of you ran the WEI soon after the SSD install? Is it possible that after use, it somehow reports it as having lesser performance? WEI, what a concept, lol. A Guy

 

[RealGoneKid]

Yes.. Nice scores..

If only my SSD stayed @7.9. Oh well

Yes mine was at 7.9.. Not no more it's at 7.6, Why would that happen? Anyone?

My Vertex 2 has dropped to 7.5 from 7.7 as well.

This is shocking news, So as soon as you use some of its free space it takes performance away. So these tiny 50/60GB drives for around £100 are a waste of money?
Perhaps saving for that 320gb isn't such a bad idea?
But that will soon fill up too, my Program files & Program Files x86 amass to 195GB so far, not a problem on my 1.5TB pair of drives, but that would easy max out a 320gb ssd with documents too.

I know you can change install directory for most Programs & games, but if the files are not on the SSD then there will be the same performance for gaming & Programs as before.
I have heard talk of massive SSD's but they are real pricey, it's around £500 for a good 320GB. That's £1000 for 2 of these, 1 for windows and 1 for Programs & Games. (And you could soon fill up the 2nd).
Perhaps a wise choice would be an 80GB SSD Just for Windows, (Even change the File paths for Documents). Then get a 320GB or bigger and run all Programs, Games & Documents off that.
Although a score of 7.6 is amazing compared to a spinner with 5.9, So the performance gain would be quite welcome.
But some Users have sometimes 2 SSD's in Raid with the exact same cloned contents on them for faster performance, So to get that with my theoretical solution, that would mean 2 80GB SSD's in Raid & 2 320GB SSD's in Raid, Just for an OS and Installed Programs/Games/Documents.
That still leaves Movies/Music/Photo's and Any downloaded Setup files needed in case of drastic failure to rebuild a system. I know these files can go on spinners, but they degrade over time. So data must be backed up again to new drives periodically.
Perhaps a BLU-RAY 50GB Disk backup solution is the only way forward for true Permanent File Storage?
The whole thing is ridiculously costly.
I have a large selection of drives in my Library and I'm always fearful of Data Loss.
Paying out money for better performance should be the least of our worries, When True Permanent DATA Backup solutions should be where technology should be heading.
Imagine putting information on a drive and never worry about it's condition, Knowing that you could go back to use it in 50 years and it would still work perfectly.
Now that's a Hard Disk Drive I would be very happy to pay for.

 

[jschatte]

Hey, I just got my new system together and was looking at this thread, so i though i would submit my scores. I plan on overclocking this processor after it is broken in a bit, and a vertex 2 is on the way!

 

[A Guy]

Yes.. Nice scores..



Yes mine was at 7.9.. Not no more it's at 7.6, Why would that happen? Anyone?

My Vertex 2 has dropped to 7.5 from 7.7 as well.

This is shocking news, So as soon as you use some of its free space it takes performance away.

Well, it may change the WEI...I sincerely doubt the user notices a difference. Those who've had it happen can tell us. A Guy

 

[tw33k]

I can't tell outside of benchmarks but it's not just the WEI score that is affected. See here for more details: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/18229-show-us-your-ssd-performance-102.html#post1185632

 

[Anusha]

I can't tell outside of benchmarks but it's not just the WEI score that is affected. See here for more details: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/18229-show-us-your-ssd-performance-102.html#post1185632

Well the performance is supposed to drop on sandforce drives because it seems to reach settle at some speed after a while.

 

[tw33k]

I think pretty much all SSDs kind of peak when they're new then drop slightly but level out. I highly doubt the drive will continue to degrade (but I'll be monitoring it)

 

[Beginning]

Wow... Everyone talking about a drop in WEI. Manufacturers must get a good laugh at this thread if they monitor. I can't say I've really noticed any drop in performance but I'm pretty sure the start up time has changed. When I first got the SSD the little pulsating flag was visible for only 2.5 sec. Now it's visible for about 3.5 to 4 seconds. Not a really big deal. Oh well my system still rocks..

 

[cbaile6692]

Updated Drivers on my GTX 460

My GTX 460 is now screaming after a driver update from nVidia and few more tweaks of my own.

 

[WolfSoul]

Here comes SSD

 

[A Guy]

Great numbers

A Guy

 

[Beginning]

Nice scores..

 

[WolfSoul]

They went up.. but I can hardly repost every time I get a gain which is usuuly a small one.. besides Im already high

 

[JOSHSKORN]

Not bad for a 3 1/2 year old system with a E6750 OC'd to 2.93. Windows Vista had the Primary Hard Disk at 5.5

Hey, it can play Crysis...and GTA IV, AND the CoD's. I'm happy. LOL

 

[jlm86]

WEI: can you help

My WEI is 5.8, but transfer rate at 5.9 or so, so, running Intel 7500 Dual Core, 4G memory....How do i get the transfer rate up. Hard Drive SATA ...2 drives

 

[Dave76]

Your attachement says 5.9, what is the 5.8?

Best way to get above that score is get a SSD.

 

[jlm86]

I have dual boot Win7/XP, so have lots of programs etc
Says 140G for both partitions.....I don't know about performance return on investment, what do you think?

 

[Dave76]

The price for SSDs $/GB is better lately but still high.
If you want a good performance upgrade, SSDs are excellent.
Keep only OS and apps on the SSD, all personal data and downloads on a HDD, this will reduce the size of SSD you need.

I have quite a few apps and use a 40GB SSD, have 40% free space. 80GB+ of data, not including music,vidios and movies, on a HDD.
All are accessed very fast with only the OS and apps on the SSD.

 

[WolfSoul]

Last call... (well untill I might RAID with another vertex 2)

 

[Dave76]

Nice scores and rig, Wolf.