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    Windows Experience Index & Position of SSD/HDD

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by cnduffey, Nov 30, 2012.

  1. cnduffey

    cnduffey Notebook Guru

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    I have a 60GB SSD as my primary boot drive and a 750GB HDD for storage. The bottleneck, according to the WEI, is my disk transfer rate. Now, even though I have the SSD as my boot drive, it's still listed as Disk 1 and the 750GB drive is listed as Disk 0. Is this what's causing the lower number in disk transfer rate? Is WEI using the 750GB to run the assessment because of it's position? Is there anything I could do fix that if it is indeed the cause?

    Thanks!
     

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    cnduffey, Nov 30, 2012
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  2. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    Which SSD do you have. Usually when its just checking a HDD you get a 5.9 rating. The 6.9 could be right but it will depend on which make/model SSD you have.
     
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    cnduffey, Nov 30, 2012
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    Look up the specs on that I see
    Sequential read: 255MB/s
    Sequential writes: 170MB/s

    A 6.9 sounds about right.
    Get a disk benchmark program like ATTO Benchmark or CrystalDisk to see if you're getting those speeds.
     
    Support.3@XOTIC PC, Nov 30, 2012
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  5. Silverfern

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    i have a similar setup, a 500gb hard drive as storage and a 128gb vertex 4 as boot drive, i get 7.9 for hard disk. the ssd you listed isnt the best and fastest, so 6.9 makes sense
     
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  6. cnduffey

    cnduffey Notebook Guru

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    CrystalDisk shows my speeds to right around 255/170 so I think you're both right - 6.9 is probably an accurate score. Thanks for the help!
     
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  7. Coors

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    WEI is a worthless "benchmark". I wouldn't even look at it. Does your laptop feel like it's not performing like it should?
     
    Coors, Nov 30, 2012
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  8. cnduffey

    cnduffey Notebook Guru

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    Oh no - the laptop is great and performs exactly as it should. This is more of an OCD thing.
     
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    The problem isn't the SSD itself, it's an mSATA.... mSATA is SATA 2 on these Clevo notebooks :/ So for him, it doesn't matter if he has a SATA 3, it would still be SATA 2 speeds. My mSATA is as fast as yours, but that doesn't matter, I'm stuck with SATA 2 speeds.
     
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  10. misterhobbs

    misterhobbs Notebook Evangelist

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    I agree with Coors, WEI isn't the best benchmarking tool.
     
    misterhobbs, Dec 1, 2012
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  11. jaug1337

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    WEI is nothing. But people seem to love the fact once it gives out good scores haha :D
     
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    Agreed. I could care less what scores it gives out as long as I'm getting the performance I'm supposed to get in real world fps or time.
     
    misterhobbs, Dec 1, 2012
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