5.9 WEI Score for SSD

So I just built this pc about a week and a half ago, and its running very nicely. The only issue is that the WEI is giving my SSD a 5.9 rating.

I've been looking around on google and it seems the culprit is usually AHCI needing to be enabled. I checked in the bios, and AHCI is enabled and Registry (msahci) is "0". I ran the AS SSD Benchmark and was getting read speeds of ~500 and write ~250, with a score of ~610 so it seems like everything is how it is supposed to be. I made sure the SSD is plugged into 6GB/s SATA port (gray and first SATA port)

What else could be the issue? I don't think anything's wrong with the SSD, speeds look good. With a minimum of 7.5 on my other components, this is kinda bugging me.

Thanks!

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Reply to nate1232

hi i have a crucial m4 64 gb and when i first installed it i was getting the same score. then i updated to a 64 bit version of the OS doing a clean install and i refreshed the rating and now its 7.6. Im not saying do a clean install of the o.s. just try refreshing the WEI.

Reply to danimaltheanimal13

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm currently using win7 64bit, and I have tried refreshing WEI multiple times, and I'm still getting the exact same score.

I could always reinstall windows since thats really the only thing on my ssd, but it'd be a pain since i'd have to re-do my registry changes to auto download to D drive

Reply to nate1232

nate1232 wrote :

So I just built this pc about a week and a half ago, and its running very nicely. The only issue is that the WEI is giving my SSD a 5.9 rating.

I've been looking around on google and it seems the culprit is usually AHCI needing to be enabled. I checked in the bios, and AHCI is enabled and Registry (msahci) is "0". I ran the AS SSD Benchmark and was getting read speeds of ~500 and write ~250, with a score of ~610 so it seems like everything is how it is supposed to be. I made sure the SSD is plugged into 6GB/s SATA port (gray and first SATA port)

What else could be the issue? I don't think anything's wrong with the SSD, speeds look good. With a minimum of 7.5 on my other components, this is kinda bugging me.

Thanks!

I had a WEI score of 5.9 for my "hard disk" after installing a Crucial M4 128 GB SSD. I disconnected my hard disk (now my d-drive) that still has Windows 7 installed, repeated the test and the score was 7.9. From what I understand the WEI score is limited by any attached drive with Windows installed, even if that installation isn't being used.

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Reply to meganano

My OS is on my C drice - the SSD. On my HDD is all my programs, games, music etc there is no OS on it at all. I suppose I could try unplugging it anyways and trying it, but I believe I already did that when I first set it up

Reply to nate1232

Which mobo are you using?

You don't want to use the Marvell ports if you can help it.

Reply to vollman1

I'm using the Asus P8P67 WS Revolution. It has 4 SATA ports. The top is the 6BG/s, the next 2 are 3GB/s, and the lat is the Marvell 6GB/s. My SSD is plugged into the top one, using the 6GB/s cord provided

Reply to nate1232

Make sure you have trim support turned on in windows, and that the drive is set to ahci mode.

Reply to jnlp31

meganano wrote :

I had a WEI score of 5.9 for my "hard disk" after installing a Crucial M4 128 GB SSD. I disconnected my hard disk (now my d-drive) that still has Windows 7 installed, repeated the test and the score was 7.9. From what I understand the WEI score is limited by any attached drive with Windows installed, even if that installation isn't being used.

I have Windows 7 64bit installed on my SSD drive and 5x 3tb WD drives connect and my WEI score is still 7.9.

Message edited by bryonhowley on 02-16-2012 at 09:59:18 PM

------------------------------ OS: Windows 7 x64 : CPU: AMD FX-8120 8-Core Black Edition
Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 : Case: In Win Dragon Rider
Video Card: 2x SAPPHIRE HD 6950 (flash to 6970) 2GB : Monitors: 3x Asus VK278Q Black 27
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB DDR3 1600
Reply to bryonhowley

Yes, when you have an HDD and SSD together it gives the lower rating for the HDD in wei.
When i first installed Windows on my SSD i had a fairly good 7.6 score for my SSD. Once i dropped the HDD in wei stated "your hardware has changed, please run the asessment again" or something like that under my computer properties. Once ran your score will be lowered to the HDD score.

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omega21xx wrote :

Yes, when you have an HDD and SSD together it gives the lower rating for the HDD in wei.
When i first installed Windows on my SSD i had a fairly good 7.6 score for my SSD. Once i dropped the HDD in wei stated "your hardware has changed, please run the asessment again" or something like that under my computer properties. Once ran your score will be lowered to the HDD score.

Have never had that problem I have one 90gig SSD and five 3tb WD with Windows 7 installed on my SSD and my WEI HDD score is 7.9 and has never changed. Just refreshed my score and it is still 7.9.

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------------------------------ OS: Windows 7 x64 : CPU: AMD FX-8120 8-Core Black Edition
Motherboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70 : Case: In Win Dragon Rider
Video Card: 2x SAPPHIRE HD 6950 (flash to 6970) 2GB : Monitors: 3x Asus VK278Q Black 27
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB DDR3 1600
Reply to bryonhowley

bryonhowley wrote :

Have never had that problem I have one 90gig SSD and five 3tb WD with Windows 7 installed on my SSD and my WEI HDD score is 7.9 and has never changed. Just refreshed my score and it is still 7.9.

I second this. I have a 120GB Chronos Deluxe and a Seagate 1TB, and it shows 7.9 for me.

Reply to Shi no Tenshi

Hearing that makes it bug me even more lol. I have a 120GB OCZ SSD and a 500GB WD HDD.

Are there any programs that rate your computer in a similar fashion, but more accurately? Just so I can compare and see if its just WEI messing up

Reply to nate1232

Make sure that the "Primary Hard Disk" is in fact your SSD. The WEI score only tests for your primary drives so, as others have said, other drives should not be a factor.

Make sure superfetch, disk defrag, and indexing are all disabled.

Otherwise I have no idea. I recently bought a Samsung SSD and did a fresh OS install, hooked up my other 2 HDDs that had my programs/music and switched from IDE to AHCI. Got a score of 7.6.

Disc defrag was off on the SSD, but i'm not sure about the others.

When I checked AHCI it was enabled by default, I never touched it. I guess this is just a big mystery :??:

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