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Started by gear999 | | 6 answers
Low Windows Experience score with new HDD?
Hello, Tom's Hardware Community.
Today I got my new hard drive for my new rig. Now, before it arrived, I was using a 7 year old Seagate 250 GB HDD with SATA 2 and 8 MB cache. The WEI score was 5.9. Today I got my new SATA 3 Seagate 1 TB drive with 64 MB cache and guess what? Still 5.9. I thought there would at least be some improvement.Was I wrong or did I get a faulty HDD?
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August 5, 2014 6:08:54 PM

Yeah, that's true. It's just my perfectionist self. I know WEI doesn't mean much - if not anything.
a c 954 G Storage
August 5, 2014 6:00:45 PM

gear999 said:
Bummer. It just bothers me seeing my base score as 5.9 considering the rest of my rig. Anyway, thanks for the help, guys.


And WEI is pretty much useless as a benchmark.
August 5, 2014 5:53:31 PM

Bummer. It just bothers me seeing my base score as 5.9 considering the rest of my rig. Anyway, thanks for the help, guys.
a c 954 G Storage
August 5, 2014 5:50:40 PM

gear999 said:
Really? So no matter what HDD (not SSD) it will be 5.9?


Yeah, pretty much. Not a lot of real difference between standard 7200RPM drives.
August 5, 2014 5:45:47 PM

Really? So no matter what HDD (not SSD) it will be 5.9?

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August 5, 2014 5:44:15 PM

The max WEI score for a traditional HDD is 5.9. You need an SSD to achieve anything higher.

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