Strange disk WEI dv7t-7000 w/SSD

I'm stumped. I got this about a week ago. First thing I did was remove the mechanical disk (without ever powering it up) and install an old Corsair Force 120GB (SATA-II) to perform a fresh install of Win7. No problems at all. Setup, from a flash drive, took about 8 minutes. The only issue was the lack of a network driver.

Anyway, after installing all the relevant HP hardware drivers, including Intel's RST, everything looked good. WEIs: Processor 7.8, Memory 7.9, Disk 7.5.

After setting up everything else, the Force 3 240GB drive arrived and I made an image off the Force 120 to copy over to the new drive. After some horsing around with the USB3 ports (you CAN setup the drivers for them in the Windows Recovery environment), the image installed and rebooted.

Looks good so far.

Then I re-ran the WEI assessment on the new, faster, disk and got......... 5.9. 5.9???? What the.....???

So I ran ATTO and AS SSD benchmarks. They look about right. Read rates for larger transfers are over 500MB/sec as they should be. Yet that 5.9 persists.

What's going on here?

Then I moved the system image over to a new Crucial M4 and the same thing happens. Normal benchmarks, 5.9 Disk WEI.

Does anyone with this machine and a SSD boot drive in it get an unexpectedly low value like this too? What drive is it? And for that matter, does anyone have a Sandforce 2200 drive (anyone's) or an M4 and get the expected 7.8/7.9 Disk WEI?

 

I don't have an answer for you but your post is kinda baffling like this, I just bought this laptop specs below and was running a DV6_6135tx when I checked the window experience index on the 2nd Gen i7 + HD 6770M, both the Desktop performance for windows aero & 3D business and gaming graphics performance is rating 6.9 and the 3rd Gen i7 + GT 650M is rating 6.7 and I'm stumped, the GT 650m is a much better card.

 

Have you checked the alignment of your partitions after you imaged from the 120 GB SSD to the new one? The Windows 7 installer will automatically set alignment correctly for an SSD, the partitions on the new SSD may be off now after imaging.

Check out this guide: Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your Partitions

 

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That thought crossed my mind, but they are correct. I always use the Windows Recovery Environment to make/move images around. That installs images the same way Windows Setup does. Plus, I've never had this problem with any other restored image -- which it quite a few. It appears that there's something with this particular machine (or class of machines?) that exposes a bug in the WEI assessment. As I said, there is no other evidence of a problem according to every diagnostic I've tried, at least so far. But that doesn't mean there isn't a genuine problem buried deep in there, which is why I'd like to hear from other owners with similar configurations.

..... I just verified the starting offsets manually. They are correct. That's not surprising since ATTO and AS-SSD turn in the expected results.