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    M17x QX9300 very low SSD Windows Index experience

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by roby200487, Jan 5, 2013.

  1. roby200487

    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hy i hawe an m17x r1 qx9300, 8 gb 1333mhz, gtx 260m, 256Gb SSD pm800 Sata 2

    WEi is: CPU 7.3

    Ram 7.3 (is This ok?)

    Video 6.8

    SSD 6.7

    I'm wondering if the SSD wei is ok?

    with Crystal discmark the Read at Seq ks 158 mb/s. Its strange.

    It is possible that my SSD is going to die? :)

    Thanks.
     
    roby200487, Jan 5, 2013
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  2. Matthew1993

    Matthew1993 Notebook Consultant

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    why your ram wouldn't be fine myne is 7.1 same 8 gb ram . I don't know about your SSD speed but it won't die i think
     
    Matthew1993, Jan 5, 2013
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    I wouldnt read to much into it. It says my gfx is 6.9. Best to run 3dmark11 and compare your scores.
     
    matthab, Jan 5, 2013
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    On m17x r3 with 8 gb ram 1333 mhz the wei is 7.6....

    Next week i put another SSD and do the rating again :)...

    I'm waiting for others opinions
     
    roby200487, Jan 5, 2013
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    It is fine, the reason is that the WEI does not take into consideration only the transfer speed but also the storage space, since the hdd is only 256GB it reads it as too small. Adding a 2nd hdd for storage will probably increase those numbers a bit.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, Jan 9, 2013
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    I get a WEI of 5.9 on my system - but the bottleneck is the 750GB 7200 RPM HDD.

    I stuck in my Samsung 830 SSD (256GB) and it went up to 7.8 (SSD put the storage part up to 7.9). I don't run the SSD because of past hardware sagas (dont go there lol) but now things are fixed - I will resinstall at the weekend and post updated figured.

    Iceman.
     
    icemanuk4, Jan 10, 2013
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I reinstall the windows, wihout luck. The ssd is partitioned 90 gb and 160 aprox, wei remains 6,7 and with cristaldyscmark the readings are 160mb/ sec, my ssd is sata 2! Is this the normal speed? In the next day i test with anoter 3-4 ssd :)
     
    roby200487, Jan 10, 2013
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  8. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I don't see anything wrong about it. The SSD only needs to make the system feel snappy. Sequential read speed doesn't matter much. Low latency is what helps a lot.

    Check in AS SSD benchmark or similar. If it tells you that the SSD is aligned, I don't think there is anything else that needs to be done.
     
    namaiki, Jan 10, 2013
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