SATA 3 - Windows experience index

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does anybody know why I am getting just a 5.9 Windows experience index for my HDD when it is a sata 3 drive with 6GB/s transfer rate and 64mb cache??:confused: from the bios I set the sata ports to operate at 6gb/s ... are there any other settings to set?
 
Sounds like the gent got himself a WD Black drive, which is fine by all means, but it is still a standard 10K mechanical drive. It never really saturated the SATA2 bandwidth to begin with, hence the score.
 
thanks ppl ... read some reviews and stuff ...

it’s nice to see the SATA 6Gb/s spec ship on a real-world product, but putting a 6Gb/s controller on a mechanical hard drive is like putting a Formula 1 airfoil on a golf cart. The vehicle just ain’t ever going to go fast enough to warrant the accessory.

feeling like I wasted my money buying a useless mechanical SATA III instead of a SATA II :mad: .... SSD it will have to be! What would be the lowest capacity SSD recommended by you guys just for the of and maybe Adobe master collection and 3Ds Max? or maybe a PCI-Express Solid State Drive :D would a 64GB do fine?


btw these are the scores I have got...what do you think?

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Why do hard drives have sata 3 (or is it now called 6) interfaces anyway?

Your best approach is to install windows & whatever else you want onto the hard drive, then take a look at how much space it's occupying. Then get an ssd that's a bit bigger than that.
 
Why do hard drives have sata 3 (or is it now called 6) interfaces anyway?

Your best approach is to install windows & whatever else you want onto the hard drive, then take a look at how much space it's occupying. Then get an ssd that's a bit bigger than that.

so yeah 64GB will be fine as I am only using 69Gb with all the apps installed on this drive :D (haha what waste of drive space :rolleyes: )
 
Hmmm just looked at your initial spec-me - this sort of thing normally gets picked out by the eagle-eyed guys here. Although there's nothing wrong with your WD Black at all and it'll be fine as a fast mechanical storage drive. It's just a bit naughty of WD to stick a pointless SATA3 controller on a HDD and charge a fair bit more than a Sammy F3 for nowt. But never mind eh? A 60-odd GB SSD for your OS and most important games/apps will be fine.
 
thanks ppl ... read some reviews and stuff ...



feeling like I wasted my money buying a useless mechanical SATA III instead of a SATA II :mad: .... SSD it will have to be! What would be the lowest capacity SSD recommended by you guys just for the of and maybe Adobe master collection and 3Ds Max? or maybe a PCI-Express Solid State Drive :D would a 64GB do fine?


btw these are the scores I have got...what do you think?

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128GB imo. Mine normally runs around 90GB used with bits of CS that I rarely use symlinked onto the magnetic disk. Those speeds seem slower than my older 7200rpm 1.5TB
 
Crucial c300 64gb sata3 - One of the few drives out there that actually benefit from 6gbps bandwidth.

64gb is fine if you just need it for os and essential apps. Has enouh room for a few games too.
 
got 7.8 with an OCZ vertex2 running 1.11 firmware with an ich10r controller

then i uninstalled windows 7 as i hate it

lol

the ich10r sata2 controllers are still right up there

even better than the u3s6 asus marvell controllers from what i have tested
 
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