SDD has big drop in windows 7 scores

_Jimlad_ · 17 Apr 2010 at 08:30

My SSD has dropped down in the win7 rating to 5.9 which is the default standard 7200rpm SATA hard drive speed, i have not noticed a speed drop but wondering if anyone has ideas on this, the performance seems to be there, and i know this scoring chart is not the definitive answer, but clearly it bugs me for it to drop in this fashion..

i have the latest firmware and toolbox for my Intel® X25-M Solid State Drive, 80GB

SiriusB · 17 Apr 2010 at 11:42

Have you tried rebooting and running it again?

_Jimlad_ · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:04

yeah loads of things like that,

SiriusB · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:08

What does HD Tune or CrystalDiskMark tell you? If they match other results from machines with similar SSD then I would just ignore what the Windows index says.

Sp00n · 17 Apr 2010 at 13:56

_Jimlad_ said:
My SSD has dropped down in the win7 rating to 5.9 which is the default standard 7200rpm SATA hard drive speed, i have not noticed a speed drop but wondering if anyone has ideas on this, the performance seems to be there, and i know this scoring chart is not the definitive answer, but clearly it bugs me for it to drop in this fashion..

i have the latest firmware and toolbox for my Intel® X25-M Solid State Drive, 80GB

5.9 on a single sata disk, really?

I have 2 x 80's in raid 1, I get 5.9 and it's a damn sight quicker than a single disk.

DavieJG · 17 Apr 2010 at 14:01

Sp00n said:
5.9 on a single sata disk, really?

I have 2 x 80's in raid 1, I get 5.9 and it's a damn sight quicker than a single disk.

it works on seek times so raid doesnt help. its all a swizz to make ppl think their hdd is slowing things down and that they neeeed to invest in a ssd

SiriusB · 17 Apr 2010 at 14:08

The maximum for any mechanical disk is 5.9 in the Windows Experience Index, or so I believe.

Incidentally I have the same SSD as Jimlad and Windows 7 has given me a 7.6 for it

I believe the highest is 7.9 :cool:

_Jimlad_ · 17 Apr 2010 at 14:47

SiriusB said:
The maximum for any mechanical disk is 5.9 in the Windows Experience Index, or so I believe.

Incidentally I have the same SSD as Jimlad and Windows 7 has given me a 7.6 for it I believe the highest is 7.9

you are correct on both counts. i used to have 7.8 now 5.9 -

theheyes · 17 Apr 2010 at 15:10

SiriusB said:
What does HD Tune or CrystalDiskMark tell you? If they match other results from machines with similar SSD then I would just ignore what the Windows index says.

This really. I just re-ran mine to see if an update had broken it and came out with 7.3

_Jimlad_ · 17 Apr 2010 at 18:44

will run some checks, speeds still seem fine, and i know its properly just a bug, but it really grating on me

_Jimlad_ · 18 Apr 2010 at 18:58

just reformatted and back upto 7.8 - yes it bugged me that much

theheyes · 18 Apr 2010 at 20:33

Take THAT Windows Experience Index!

_Jimlad_ · 18 Apr 2010 at 21:33

theheyes said:
Take THAT Windows Experience Index!

lol - i know it was a little OTT,

i think the issue lies with the toolbox and windows7, because straight from a clean install which took 17 mins from start to all windows updates done via USB install to SDD

the score still came in at 5.9, so i ran the toolbox which took a few mins to run and bingo back to 7.8, hope it stays that way

theheyes · 18 Apr 2010 at 21:39

What is the toolbox? (forgive my ignorance) Is the drive a G2?

And yeah, USB install rules. Installing Vista/W7 in general is so much better.

_Jimlad_ · 19 Apr 2010 at 08:47

im not entries sure, its a G2 and the toolbox does things with TRIM and basically is SSD version of defragger, - someone in the know will correct me, but that was where the problem was for me i guess