Which SSD gives 7.9 index score ?

[tweakboy]

I get 5.9 , and I hear SSD gets like 7.7 or 7.4 ,, havent heard of one getting a 7.9.. soo can someone help out who has a 7.9 on the hard drive score.. Thanks

 

[Yellowbeard]

I don't think any single SSD is going to do it. I have 2 x P128s in RAID-0 on my daily driver. It gets a 7.5. My gamer/test rig has 4 x P64s and it gets a 7.9. P series is Samsung Gen 2 controller.

3, or possibly even 2 SandForce drives may do it but I have not tested them yet.

Just curious, do you actually care about WEI?

 

[Voo]

A single Intel G2 160gb gets 7.7, so I'm almost certain that newer controller like the SF ones get 7.9, but that's such a pointless benchmark that's only there to tell "non-tech" people how their systems are fairing, that I don't see why it'd be that interesting.

 

[FishAk]

The score is a Windows Experience score. It rates how much you are likely to enjoy your experience with Windows. It has vertually no relevance as to how good or bad your system as a whole is. It is only for Windows.

If your goal is to boot to Windows, and play with the utilities that come with it, and nothing else, this is the bencmark for you. If however, you only load Windows as a tool in order to do something useful, or to play a game, you need a different benchmark to gauge your system's performance.

 

[Voo]

The score is a Windows Experience score. It rates how much you are likely to enjoy your experience with Windows. It has vertually no relevance as to how good or bad your system as a whole is. It is only for Windows.

If your goal is to boot to Windows, and play with the utilities that come with it, and nothing else, this is the bencmark for you. If however, you only load Windows as a tool in order to do something useful, or to play a game, you need a different benchmark to gauge your system's performance.

I doubt very much that that's MS goal.. or can you name just one included app in Windows that needs a gaming GPU? But they still rate exactly that..

It's just a rough overlook but it tells people approximately where their setup is..

 

[tweakboy]

Ya I heard Vertex and OCZ give 7.7 , not raided. Is there one, or does someone own one any size that gives 7.9 ,, without having raid like the guy on top of me....

 

[Blain]

I get 5.9 , and I hear SSD gets like 7.7 or 7.4 ,, havent heard of one getting a 7.9.. soo can someone help out who has a 7.9 on the hard drive score..

Ya I heard Vertex and OCZ give 7.7 , not raided. Is there one, or does someone own one any size that gives 7.9 ,, without having raid like the guy on top of me....

Why do you even care about some meaningless score?

If there was a way you could "hack" the score to be artificially higher, but not actually help performance...
Would that be something you'd be inerested in?

 

[fffblackmage]

My OCZ Agility 60GB gets 6.9 if I use IDE mode, and it gets 7.2 on AHCI mode.

But yeah, the WEI score should be the last thing you want to consider when buying an SSD...

 

[bacillus]

My crucial c300 256GB drive gives me a 7.9 score.

 

[KIAman]

I get 7.7 on my Intel G2 80GB SSD.

 

[AndroidVageta]

I have a 5.9 with my 30GB OCZ Vertex...hmmm...

 

[tweakboy]

Android you have Vista OS then if your score is 5.9 ....

Nothing just wondering,, looks like Intel is the way to go like that guys G2 except be 300GB for 200 hundred dollars I would buy it...

 

[llee]

delete this post

 

[billyb0b]

i got a 7.3 on a 60gb corsair force

 

[Rubycon]

Intel X25MG2 160 (single) was 7.8 here. Adding another (on ARC1680ix-24) was 7.9...

Use ASSD benchmark instead. It actually provides information you can use.

 

[tweakboy]

Ah C300 . hope there is a 300GB or 500GB version on the horizon...

 

[tweakboy]

Nice rubycan, you mean you went SSD RAID what is that you say ?

 

[Edrick]

Intel X25-M G2 80 gets me 7.8 using ACHI.

 

[Rubycon]

Nice rubycan, you mean you went SSD RAID what is that you say ?

Yes just four X25 will do that. Just checked them over after running for 2 1/2 months. Avg. 1TB write per disk. One disk shows 1 reallocated sector though.

 

[poohbear]

My crucial c300 256GB drive gives me a 7.9 score.

me too, but the 64gb version. its has ridiculous read speeds.:0

 

[=Wendy=]

WEI is basically a little application called "Winsat" that can be used for all sorts of useful things, if you call it up via the command prompt and pass it parameters. In fact used in this way it's as good as any synthetic benchmark.

You can build a script of tests you want to run.
For example. You can test 4K random write by passing the following parameters via the command prompt.
winsat disk -ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 4096

Or group different tests in a batch file to get output like the following, which i used to measure my Vertex 2.

C:\>winsat disk -ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 4096
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransiz
e 4096'
> Run Time 00:00:00.28
> Disk  Random 4.0 Read                        126.92 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:00.87
 
C:\>winsat disk -ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 4096
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransi
ze 4096'
> Run Time 00:00:00.33
> Disk  Random 4.0 Write                       70.31 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:00.94
 
C:\>winsat disk -seq -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsize 524288
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsiz
e 524288'
> Run Time 00:00:09.95
> Disk  Sequential 512.0 Read                  258.30 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:10.58
 
C:\>winsat disk -seq -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsize 524288
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -seqsi
ze 524288'
> Run Time 00:00:00.81
> Disk  Sequential 512.0 Write                 263.86 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:01.42
 
C:\>winsat disk -ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 16384
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransiz
e 16384'
> Run Time 00:00:00.30
> Disk  Random 16.0 Read                       225.36 MB/s          7.9
> Total Run Time 00:00:00.90
 
C:\>winsat disk -ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransize 16384
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -write -drive c -count 1 -iocount 256 -ransi
ze 16384'
> Run Time 00:00:00.31
> Disk  Random 16.0 Write                      223.88 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:00.90
 
C:\>winsat disk -flush -drive c
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive c -seq'
> Run Time 00:00:00.89
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive c -ran'
> Run Time 00:00:00.89
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes     0.196 ms          7.9
> Latency: 95th Percentile                     0.364 ms          7.9
> Latency: Maximum                             1.932 ms          7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes         0.201 ms          7.9
> Total Run Time 00:00:02.40
 
C:\>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .

 

[ViviTheMage]

my ocz solid 2 does 7.8 I think.

 

[Zap]

I suspect that the WEI score for HDD takes capacity and/or free space into account along with performance. Is there any truth to that?

 

[pjkenned]

Not sure but I have hit 7.9 with 2x X25-V 40GB's in RAID 0. See a screenshot here when I was testing a Xeon X3440.

 

[coolVariable]

5.9 w. intel SSD