Raptor gets what - Windows Experience?

[TheGreatSatan]

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?

[mtekk]

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 .

[SXRguyinMA]

hell my hard drive is a std 400GB WD and it gets a 5.8 in W7

[crenn]

I get 5.9 with a WD 500GB drive.

[TheGreatSatan]

I'll have a 74GB primary and a 1TB secondary in R2-M5, so hopefully I'll max it out

[mtekk]

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.

[Crazy Buddhist]

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. ...

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

[mtekk]

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.

[SXRguyinMA]

they rate from 1.0 to 7.9 now

[Crazy Buddhist]

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.

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.

Perhaps it is still limited to 5.9 for those components .. unless anyone, anywhere ... got 6 or higher for their HDD or RAM ?