W.E.I. Giving Wrong Score

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I recently cloned and replaced my HDD on my Dell Optiplex 790 to a Crucial BX100 240 GB SSD. But every time I run the WEI, its "Primary Hard Disk" score stays at 5.9; the same as when I was using the HDD. Now I know that is bogus because my PC boots at SSD speed and accesses data at SSD speeds. It passed the AS SSD benchmark with decent scores for a SSD. Why is the WEI score not changing when I run the WEI assessment?

My SSD is connected to a SATA III header. (I tried it on both the SATA II and SATA III headers and recorded scores for each. So I know for sure I am on the correct header) But even on a SATA II header, it should be gobs faster than a mechanical HDD.
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Thanks. That did the trick. I ran Auslogic's special SSD defrag algorithm instead of the Win defrag. Then I ran the WEI again and got a 7.9 (max) for the SSD.
 

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Yeah, that was a first for me. Their free defrag pgm has an option called "Optimize SSD (use of special algorithm)"
I don't think it actually defrags, because when it finished I still had gobs of sectors that were listed as fragmented. But it solved the WEI issue.