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    SSD only scoring 5.9 in Win 7

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by chrisc007, Feb 3, 2011.

  1. chrisc007

    chrisc007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    About 10-12 months ago I replaced the 320GB 7200 HDD in my M17 for a 128GB Supertalent SSD. The difference was very noticeable and my score for Windows Vista Experience was 5.9 (max).

    I recently upgraded to Win 7 and was expecting the SSD to be the highest scoring component in my system. However, it was the lowest at 5.9. I thought that maybe this was because I still had my 320GB drive in the second HDD bay and it was testing them both, so I took the HDD out and ran the test again. Still only getting 5.9!!?!? - the rest of the system is scoring 6.7+.

    I have run a HDD benchmark test on both drives - the SSD has an average tranfer rate of around 3x faster than the HDD and an average seek of over 100x faster.

    Am I missing something? Surely this should be scoring much higher?

    I'm just concerned that Win7 isn't using the SSD to its full capability!

    Any thoughts?
     
    chrisc007, Feb 3, 2011
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  2. KimoT

    KimoT Are we not men?

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    WEI is useless. You could have a driver issue or WEI does not recognize it as an SSD. But as long as you have Win 7 set up properly and are getting good speeds in a real benchmark program, don't worry about it.
     
    KimoT, Feb 3, 2011
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    darkloki Notebook Deity

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    I have 2 brands of SSD's one is the standard Samsung SSD that came with the Alienware Laptop and the other are Intel SSD's that I purcahsed on my own. I've noticed that my Intel SSD's are vastly superior to the Samsung SSD as my Intel's score 7.8's and my Samsung Scores 5.9's
     
    darkloki, Feb 3, 2011
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