Show Us Your WEI

[Mark]

I'm not sure but it may be a Seagate and it's fairly old, well a year and a half old but it is only SATA1 and it does have a smaller cache then my newer one, is there some way of checking the spec without having to pull it out and look?

 

[darkassain]

go to your device manager
There on the harddisk should be letters and numbers like john posted...

something like ST######

 

[Mark]

OK it's Western Digital, still not sure on the cache size.

 

[johngalt]

Hmmm - The part after the initial WDC and before the - is your model number - you can find the exact specs over at WD's site.

I am pretty sure, though, the 250 is either an 8 or a 16 MB Cache HD....

 

[darkassain]

yep it is

WD Caviar® Blue™
250 GB, 3 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM

With SATA and EIDE interfaces, cache sizes ranging from 2 MB to 16 MB, WD Caviar Blue drives offer a full range of performance features. Pick the drive that suits your needs with the confidence in knowing that all WD Caviar Blue drives are built to the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Interface:
SATA 3 Gb/s EIDE 100 MB/s
Cache Size: 16 MB 8 MB 2 MB
Capacities:
750 GB640 GB500 GB400 GB320 GB250 GB160 GB80 GB40 GB
Model: WD2500AAJS

 

[johngalt]

Can't believe though that he is getting better scores on his system with those drives than I am on my system on my drives lol....

WEI is obviously selective in handing out good scores....

 

[Mark]

The 250GB drive is what I have Vista installed on and 150GB drive has Windows 7 and that is the older one, in Vista I get a 5.9 on the 250GB drive.

 

[johngalt]

I get a 5.9 in Vista as well, but my dual 500 GB drives, one of which has nothing but W7 on it, should be out powering your 160 pretty easily - it has 3 times the capacity and 4 times the cache....and is a SATA II....

And yet our WEIs are the same for the HDs.

Hence, my saying that the WEI is freaky....

 

[Mark]

I agree 100% and not sure about the memory scores either, considering I have 4 Gigs of Patriot Low Latency 800Mhz DDR2 RAM, although I have it at 5.4.4.12 with my overclock for stability.

 

[johngalt]

Right now my RAM is running at 5-5-5-15-2T @ 800 - All my OC is off and my ReaperX HPC does not have a JEDEC standard for running at 500 (1000 DDR) so it defaults to 800 until I manually set it - but I had to remove the OC to get 700 installed, so I saved my settings to a profile and then loaded the BIOS defaults - it was faster than changing things by hand

So, technically, your RAM is running faster than mine.

 

[Mark]

I had some problems installing 7000 as well and the same in 6936 right at the end when it seemed to be installing the display driver, the screen went blank the monitor went into standby and never came on again and the same as you I left it for a while but nothing and I had to reset the system.

The way I managed to get round it was to leave the partly installed OS on there and try the install again as the first thew of times it happened was after a format and every time it would go blank when it was installing the display driver.

So I have no idea what the problem is but that worked for me, I would prefer it I could have just installed fresh without the muck around but maybe as you found disabling the OC might have the same result and that is probably the best thing to do anyway when installing your OS.

 

[SIW2]

Hi John,

It's weird. I just have the 3rd partition on my hd for 7000 - about 23gb. 1st partition is still Vista and still the System partition.

The hd is a very cheap Maxtor 160gb drive with 2mb cache - yet it gets a WEI of 5.7, which isn't a bad score.

No idea why the better hd's get poor scores.

SIW2

 

[baarod]

intel wont let you install the drivers
the setup will refuse to install on mine...
saying its an unsupported system

UNpack them and use device manager to force it.

 

[bambi]

Tbh, Beat this

I think i win?

-baMBi

 

[Airbot]

Tbh, Beat this

I think i win?

-baMBi

Err, you need some more memory there.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Later Ted

 

[bambi]

when i sort out my resolution ill show u i have nothing above a 2. But atm im stuck with 600 X 400 res and cant work out why and since i have that. It doesn't all fit on one page and is generally nasty

-baMBi-

 

[Joe]

Ok! After some arm wrestling with the device manager settings for my hard drive, I give you my WEI:

 

[skunksmash]

WEI on windows 7 baffles me.....

do you OC joe..?? if not that's a stock Q6600 & 800mhz RAM pulling 7.1...:sarc: yet i've seen i7's pulling that & less...& what about DDR3..??, i mean the bandwidth of the lowest DDR3, 1333mhz over 800 is quite significant..??



SK

 

[Airbot]

Here's my updated WEI after an ATI Win 7 update from windows update. Gave me a .2 increase for my Graphics from 3.4 to 3.6.

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