In Vista, do all WD Raptor drives get a 5.9 just because they're 10K RPM? Just wondering if it's worth buying a higher capacity drive to get the bigger cache or can I get a 74GB one for the same performance?
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In Vista, do all WD Raptor drives get a 5.9 just because they're 10K RPM? Just wondering if it's worth buying a higher capacity drive to get the bigger cache or can I get a 74GB one for the same performance?
I can compare a 300GB VelociRaptor, 1TB Caviar Black, and 250GB Caviar Raid Edition with Windows 7 RC on Friday.
I'm using the 250GB right now and it gets a 5.5 in Windows 7. The other two I can check on Friday (well, maybe tomorrow night, we'll see). The 1TB drive just came today, I love FedEx they always deliver a day early :D.
hell my hard drive is a std 400GB WD and it gets a 5.8 in W7
I get 5.9 with a WD 500GB drive.
I'll have a 74GB primary and a 1TB secondary in R2-M5, so hopefully I'll max it out
Ok, the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black gets a 5.9. Takes about 12 minutes to install Windows 7 on it. As a side note, it is a very quiet drive, I can't hear it over my Noctua case fans.
The 300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor gets a 5.9. Looks like something else in the system is limiting the rating on it. May be my ICH (ICH9) is the bottleneck as-far-as Windows 7 is concerned. It's still faster than the 1TB Caviar Black (took less than 3 minutes to do the file copying for the Windows 7 installation). You can hear it seek when reading an writing, unlike the Caviar Black.
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Originally Posted by mtekk
Have they upped the upper limits for Windows experience in Win 7?
If not you will not get a higher score than 5.9 on anything. When Micro$oft Tech-Heads put together the experience scale it was limited from 1 - 5.9 by design. The idea was/is that the upper limit will be raised as hardware performance increases with new generation hardware. Existing hardware would still score the same.
However, if they have not implemented an increase in the upper limit for Win 7 RC1 then 5.9 will be the most you ever get. ..... The bottleneck is that 5.9 is the maximum score.
CB
7.9 is the claimed limit in Windows 7. My memory and Hard Drive are stuck at 5.9, the CPU is at 6.6 and the Graphics is at 6.3.
:stupid: they rate from 1.0 to 7.9 now
That makes sense. There has been a greater growth in power of CPU's and GPU's over the last two years than improvements in memory and HDD technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtekk
Perhaps it is still limited to 5.9 for those components .. unless anyone, anywhere ... got 6 or higher for their HDD or RAM ?
I think the ram is about right at 5.9, it's only DDR2 800 CL5, there's much faster stuff out there, just Intel motherboards are picky, and it's the best my board can run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy Buddhist
Anyone have an Intel SSD to test against Windows 7 (I don't have any SSDs yet, I'm eying up one of the Gen 2 intel ones)? If it doesn't get above 5.9, then maybe storage only goes to 5.9.
I get over 6, but I run SSD boot. My overall score is like 6.8 or something. Once I unlock this tricore I expect over 7.
5.9 is about the limit for Mechanical HDDs for a very good reason.
/me begs the foxy one to tell us the reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by crenn
I got the drive and it scores a crappy 5.6
Access time. That's what it's down to.
I also get over 5.9 for my SSDs...7.4 actually :D They're actually the highest rated thing in my computer. Believe it or not, according to the Win7 Experience Score, my GTX260 is the bottleneck :P Oh well, I still haven't run into anything I can't run at full settings except for GTA4...stupid artificial limiters...I don't care if I 'only' have 896MB of GDRAM, I want to turn everything up as far as the dial goes! Let ME worry about it playing like crap if I turn it up too high :evil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayin
Which ones do you have?
I have two 60GB OCZ Vertex drives in a RAID-0. Granted, with a crappy onboard RAID controller, but hey, it's not like RAID-0 really needs much power behind it anyways, right :D I would definitely recommend the Vertex line if you're looking to get an SSD; they're relatively cheap, and provide amazing performance. I've become accustomed to the speed, but when I first switched from my temporary system to this.....there's really no comparing them to the physical HDDs I was using, it's like comparing a sport bike to a bicycle, yeah, they both have two wheels, but that's about where the similarity ends.
I've read reviews on Newegg and lots of people are saying they have to do a bunch of firmware updates and Windows tweaks to get it working right. What have you done?
I did have to do the firmware update on both of mine. It was a pretty straight-forward process, well documented on OCZ's website/forums. I think it took about 4-5 minutes each. As for Windows tweaks, I'm using the Windows 7 RC, so I didn't really have to do much at all. Just disable the auto-defrag (pretty sure 7 did this by itself, but I wanted to make sure it was off), hibernation, and virtual memory. The one more involved thing I ended up having to do was moving my FireFox profile and cache onto a RAMdisk, as I detailed here. I had constant pausing problems, but only with FF, not with everything like has been mentioned for SSDs using the JMicron controller. Now that I have stuff moved over (profile made the biggest difference), FF is crazy fast and snappy, and it never pauses anymore :D
I think I'll keep my crappy 74GB one for now. I've spent over $300 the past week on a new video card and RAM already
My Windows score dropped from 5.6 on my Raptor to 5.5! Does that mean it's dying?
I guess you could use a program to check the SMART data. Try a defrag?
If you have enough RAM, you could also disable virtual memory.
I have installed intalled it on a wd blue 500gig drive it got5.9 now to get over 5.9 you need a ssd.. the velocrapter 300 gig only got 5.9 but the ssd drive on my netbook with a ssd hardrive I bought 64 gig ocz got 6.9 and is way faster.. all normal hardrives the score is set to 5.9 max even if you raid..
get a wd black 1tb or 640 if you want speed kicks the rapters but.. and you get size..Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGreatSatan
all 5.9... been there done that.. even with the full thing its still 5.9Quote:
Originally Posted by mtekk