OCZ Solid 3 SSD mediocre WE score (5.9)?

[TheAdvocate]

Just finished a new build so some of you may recognize it:

Core i5 2500k

Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z (ROG) mATX

2x4GB Gskills Ripjaw DDR3 1600

OCZ Solid 3 120 GB SSD

Silverstone Grandia GD05 case

I also have a Seagate SATA 1TB 7200 HD & an optical drive.

No vid card yet, I am running on the i5 graphics, and actually getting a 6.5 for graphics score, so the 5.9 for the OCZ HD is particularly disppointing. I ran a diagnostic tool that I saw someone else discussing here - (HDTune), and either writes or reads were only at about 285, while the other was in the high 400 range, especially sustained. I can run the tool again at home tonight (at work), but wondered if anyone may know a likely out-of-the box culprit for the performance lag...? Aside from setting it as the boot drive once I got windows 7 x64 installed on it, I haven't tweaked the mobo BIOS at all, mainly because on auto it seems to detect evrything correctly (It's Asus ROG UEFI):

 

[nanaki333]

are you on AHCI/RAID

 

[TheAdvocate]

It's definitely on AHCI... I didn't setup RAID, so I am guessing no.

What type of RAID setup do you need and why? I have a 1Tb storage drive and all my programs & OS on the SSD.

 

[nanaki333]

i was asking about raid because if it's set to raid in the bios, then single drives will act in ahci. i know this may sound silly, but have you re-run the WEI a second time? an m4 in my work machine was reporting a score of 5.9 just like yours when i first set it up.

 

[TheAdvocate]

I haven't run it again, but will tonight. Will post a follow up afterwards.

Everything else was 7.8 -7.9. Once I buy a modern GPU and get off the Intel HD 3000 on chip gpu, I should have a pretty nice rig.

BTW, in case anyone was wondering - that Silverstone case is so cool. It looks like another AVR, etc. one complaint - the HD/SSD mount is crap. It's poorly thought out. I had a helluva time trying to figure out how to best mount the HD & SSD on it, use the rubber gromets (sp?) for vibration protection (on the HD) and still connect cables to both drives. It has this ridiculous rubber section divider that sits on top of the PSU and the way the screw holes are for the HD, you have to put the connector side of the HD *in* the rubber divider, making it impossible to attach cables to unless you rip the divider up.

Sorry... just tangentially HD related, but I think I invented new expletives for that install. now that it's done, it looks fantastic, but man that was a bitch.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Yep, you were right... it's doing great now:

 

[nanaki333]

silly windows!

 

[draistlin]

so what exactly was wrong with the bios settings, because i've got a similar thing with my ssd, wei score is 6.9 everything else is 7,5 plus, i've also got a 500GB Sata 3 HDD hocked up. My SSD is in ACHI mode if that helps.