Windows Experience Index / HDD Benchmark

My WEI used to be 5.9 with the hard drives being the lowest number .
I have just installed the new ATI drivers and the WEI needed re-run , now my lowest score is 4.6 with the hard drives causing it

I defragged and cleaned up the disk , checked raid was working and all seems well and ran it again and got 4.7 ....
I know its not really important but why has it dropped so much... is this a sign of a problem

 

no it's not a sign of a problem, mostly because WEI is such a poor benchmark. If you wish to see what your drives are acutally doing, use a HDD benchmark like HDtach, ATTO or CDM. my HDD score likes to varry between 7.6-7.8 often.

 

Thanks for that ... i'll give them a go .

Pc seems to be very slow at somethings and slow to start up

 

I just dont understand why its lost points on WEI .

 

Because windows woke up on the wrong side of the bed

 

This is annoying me now ... wei now 4.6 after installing new secondary graphic card .

Needed running again and went from 5.0 to 4.6 .... .....

 

How does this look for a benchmark ... i dont understand it ....

 

Not great, the read speeds seem really low. Can another raid 1 user chime in? Im in raid 0 and reads are 140 and writes about 135.
Before raid I was averaging 87 reads and 80 writes, using ATTO.

 

Yeah i have a feeling something isnt right here but dont know how to check or what settings i should check

 

Here is another benchmark .... how do i fix this ??
Its slower than my 8 year old laptop ....

 

Not sure if this can affect performance, but do you have the latest Intel rapid storage driver installed?

 

Hi
As far as i know its the lastest Intel rapid storage from Dell 9.6.0.1014.

 

and is raid set correctly in bios? - ive noticed that this can "reset" itself or change under certain conditions...

 

In the bios it all looks correct and also in the raid configuration utility ( pressing Control and I ) during boot it all looks correct as well ....
Why would there be 2 options for raid as in bios and a seperate configuration utility as well ?

 

Ok now im really confused ... i unticked a few boxes on this benchmark thing and look at the speeds now ????
This is good is it not ... so why is the pc slow and wei dropping

 

I just know that from personal experience, in the past when i have flashed to a newer bios, i have had to go back into bios and reset the raid configuration to raid 0 (my config)....i had some probs after biso falsh i couldnt account for and was told to check bios settings...they had to be reset to raid 0.

I would just double check to make sure yours are set to raid 1 in bios if thats your set up....

 

Your speeds have gone up havent they? - apart from 256.0

 

Yes they have gone up dramatically in that test after unticking some of the boxes .

 

im not sure what the various settings do or how to fully interperet the readings.....since reading this thread, ive done the same on my raid 0 setup and granted i get faster speeds, they all go up across the board....

The only thing that i can see as a laman is that your reading next to 256.0 read speed is dramatically much lower than the rest of the results and that would cause me concern as to why....sorry i dont have the explanation to it but it seems odd that that reading is so low compared to the others - maybe that indicates a problem with one of your HDD's, again im not sure.

 

Proz, are you running RAID 1? Also, open up your resource monitor and make sure there isn't some process writing or reading the disk too much. Here's a couple of pics of my disk activity.





I have a RAID 0 setup so my score won't help you, but you should be able to compare activity.

 

Hi , thanks for your advice .... looks like i have 90 odd proccesses running but disk activity looks ok ?? ... this is after sitting idle for 15 mins .

 

Is there any one with Raid 1 can run this disc benchmark to compare please ?

 

I've taken the disc metrics from winsat ...
Looks like its the LongIo's thats killing my disc score ...
What does that mean or show
LongIo's scoring 1.9 to 1.0

Seems really low compare to the other disc tests
Tried to paste up the full xml but it wont let me

 

Here's a longshot...is your hard drive approaching full?

 

I had a similar problem with my HP HDX9000. Running Vista Ultimate, my C2D T7700 went from a WEI of 5.9 to a lowly 5.2. I did chipset drivers, thermal tests, other benchmarks, I even did a zero-fill of the hard drive, and nothing fixed it. WEI is inaccurate. If your everyday performance isn't changed, I really wouldnt worry about it. Try copying some large files, like movies, from an external drive. See how fast they copy. Mine always transfers between 30 and 40MBps.

 

No it not full ... i have 316gb free from 451 gb ... ill try the file transfers .. Thanks

 

Hi
I have just transfered a 7.29gb iso of a game and it transfered at 25-27MB/s .
Seems a bit slower than your 30-40 MB/s