Low Windows Experience Index score on SSD?

[jchurch83]

Hello all

I have a OCz Vertex 2 50g for booting windows and a few other programs. I believe at first I remember seeing this scoring roughly a 7.7 on WEI score, however as of late when I redid this I have been around a ~5.8-6. The only thing I really remember changing around was I added Another 1TB WD hard drive for storage. So I run 3 Hard drives currently: OCz Vertex 2 main boot hard drive, 1 300g WD Velociraptor for Games/programs, 1 TB WD for storage. My motherboard is the Asus Rampage III extreme, and all are connected via Sata 3.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Jonathan

 

[Pyree]

7.7 seems correct. I got vertex 2 120G and have 7.7. Can you unplug the other 2 HDD and run it? Even if the WEI is low, I doubt it is a ture indication of disk performance. You better benchmark it with HDtune.

 

[jchurch83]

Ill try that tonight. I was thinking that it might have something to do with having too many HDs running off the Sata and causing some kind of bottleneck with transfer rates.

 

[Pyree]

I also have the same amount of hard disk attach and still got 7.7. 1x500GB, 1x2TB and the vertex 2. But since we are on different mobo, its hard to say.

 

[jchurch83]

Hmm interesting.. This is a discussion about IDE vs ACHI http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Is-IDE-or-AHCI-mode-better-for-single-SSDs/td-p/9352

Someone posted that IDE gave him a better WEI score however ACHI mode gave him a better benchmark. Issue with windows 7?

 

[Pyree]

Don't worry about it, WEI is bad for benchmarking to begin with. Get HDtune or crystaldiskmark to benchmark your ssd.