Windows Experience Index Low score for Hard-Drive

Hi,
when you check your system score, for the Primary hard-disk, I get a score of 5.9 where everywhere I get 7.2.
How come my score is that low?
I am running win7 64 bit. spec are below.
Hard-Disk is ST9500420ASG, Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...ecadd110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD&locale=en-US
I don't see any firrmware to upgrade.

Edit : Screenshot


Thanks

 

Because it's a mechanical drive. WEI is a pretty useless benchmark, but if you'd like a higher score, you can buy a SSD to replace your mechanical drive with. You could also run your drives in a RAID 0 configuration to improve performance, but that's going to require backing up and restoring your system.

 

That is odd, I have the same thing with my hard drive, I would imagine that with 2 of those in RAID you would have a higher score than 5.9 even though they are mechanical, but Brandon has a pretty good point WEI is pretty useless, and obviously not very accurate.

 

You should start your own thread. Hijacking is impolite.

 

I fixed it to make your post useful.

 

I have my drives in Raid-0 three WD 640gb drives and I too get 5.9....I'm not worrying about it.

 

even raid on still 5.9?
How to I know my h-d really transfer at 3 gig/ sec?

 

I agree, windows index is dumb. Hd for me is 5.9 also. What's the score for ssd's? Hopefully they will become a lot cheaper next year.

 

My OCZ Apex 120GB gets "6.8", and as far as SSD's go, the Apex is pretty crappy.

 

please use a real benchmark to base your laptops performance on.

 

I would have to agree....

 

Nah, that would make too much sense.

 

I did HDTune and my RAID0 drives transfer slower than my third non-RAID drive and pretty crappy min & max's, buy any SSD and itll run faster than a momentus, intel X-25M's are the best drive out there and considering your rig, they are fairly reasonable for 160GB (make sure you buy Gen2 with the new controller and TRIM support) WEI will be pwned if you care about it at that point

EDIT:
http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=1805483&viewSpec=y&showold=#productTop

Thats the cheapest UK retailler for X25-M's man

 

I have an Intel X-25M 160gb SSD in my Toshiba Qosmio X305-720 and I get a 7.7 for the windows experience score

 

I get a 7.8 with my 80gb Intel.

 

I must disagree. Based on those scores it looks to me like Windows Experience score is a pretty good basic benchmark for general Windows use. Mechanical HDD is by far the weakest performing part on modern computers and the scores should be dispersed through the 0.0 to 7.9 range accordingly. If good SSDs score in the high 7s, then mid to high 5s for mechanical seems fair even for Raid 0 7200RPM HDD. I wouldn't want it to score higher and misrepresent with too small a gap the performance benefit modern SSDs (or Raptor arrays) can provide.

 

The WEI sees 2 or more regular spin disks in a RAID setup as one disk, it does not take the added performance of the RAID into consideration. Stop worrying about it.

 

because wei gives you 5.9 unless u have a ssd.

 

I don't care what the WEI says, my experience is awesome.

 

Keep in mind that 3 Gb/s is the maximum burst transfer rate. No mechanical hard drive can hit a sustained transfer rate of 3 Gb/s (and SSDs are only starting to APPROACH that threshold, which is why SATA III was introduced, with a 6 Gb/s limit).

That said, the best way to test your drive's actual performance is with a true benchmarking utility like HD Tach.

WEI is only going to give a very basic idea of your performance, and like others have said, it is mainly looking at: "Is it an SSD? If no, what is the spin speed?"