Improving WEI rating for hard disks??

[Petchi b]

My Windows 7 Eperience Index rating is as follows;

CPU - 7.5
RAM - 7.5
Graphics - 7.9
Gaming Graphics - 7.9
Hard Disk - 5.9

The hard disk is letting me down, how can I improve the rating to 7+? Is it a SSD? Or are there any other options?

Thanks

 

[DeadEyeDuk]

Pretty much SSD, although i'm sure top end HDDs would get you closer.

Even some SSDs dont seem to show as 7.9.

Orrrr

Ignore WEI, because, much like Cake, it is a lie!

 

[Petchi b]

Haha thanks!

Surely a Velociraptor drive would be between 6-7 if anyone can confirm?

 

[Fear]

Haha thanks!

Surely a Velociraptor drive would be between 6-7 if anyone can confirm?

My old rig got 6.2 with 2 150GB raptors Raid0 and as they are now single drives they get 5.9 same as my 640GB Caviar Black, so the only way to get over 7 is SSD and as has been said WEI is not really a good test.

 

[Wozza63]

Maybe the 15,000rpm drives get 7.0? They are ridiculously expensive though, SSDs are cheaper

 

[UndeadJack]

aren't hard disks a touchy subject for WEI? my current wei or my laptop is like 1.6

 

[Wozza63]

I dont see why you would worry about the rating, if it isnt giving you problems then its 10/10 right?

 

[Rakk]

Hard Disk - 5.9

I'm pretty sure the only way to get above 5.9 is by having an SSD (or raiding drives as mentioned by Fear, but that didn't seem to change it much)

 

[gavcor]

I havent seen one rated in WEI but the new hybrid HDD are meant to get you higher scores than the standard mechanical ones.

 

[tom_gr7]

Ignore WEI, because, much like Cake, it is a lie!

lol i remember that program! This is cake!

what's it called! OMG was so funny!

 

[vanthus]

If it bothers you, raise your WEI score with a bit of tweaking , ,here's mine.

 

[UndeadJack]

If it bothers you, raise your WEI score with a bit of tweaking , ,here's mine.

hahah lol - system tweaking or a bit of scripting?

 

[Wozza63]

Are you sure that isnt just your systems actual rating? What did you have to do? Or did you just do it in HTML and print screen it.

 

[vanthus]

hahah lol - system tweaking or a bit of scripting?

Easy done,just change the entries in a certain folder.
wouldn't recommend it though,I just do silly things like that sometimes.

 

[vanthus]

Are you sure that isnt just your systems actual rating? What did you have to do? Or did you just do it in HTML and print screen it.

My systems actual ratings?I wish.

 

[Petchi b]

I dont see why you would worry about the rating, if it isnt giving you problems then its 10/10 right?

Yeah your right I was just wondering thats all as its a big drop compared to my other ratings. I will get an SSD at some point I'm sure.

Thank you everyone for your thoughts

 

[Teaz]

someone on here that has ssd caching with a hdd should do a WEI score, id like to see. if it reaches past a a usually velociraptor drive then its certainly an interesting cheap approach instead of a pure ssd usage

 

[Gigeralien]

lol i remember that program! This is cake!

what's it called! OMG was so funny!

Is this the program you're thinking of?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4f4oy2M_Og