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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversThe screaming 320GB hard drive in my new Sony VAIO laptop has me screeching. Thank you Windows Experience Index.
I just got the computer a week ago Friday—and it was an expensive purchase. A friend and I swapped some gear, for which he got my older 15-inch MacBook Pro (2,4GHz processor and 4GB RAM), which offset most of the VAIO's $1,999 price. The WEI, as rated by Windows Vista: a respectable, but not great 3.8. Windows 7 Beta 1 WEI: 2.0.
That's right, as I tweeted earlier today: "My new VAIO laptop had 3.8 Windows Experience Index under Vista. It gets a 2.0 under Windows 7. Because of the hard drive. LOL. But, of course, I'm not laughing at all. I'm not crying, either. There is a reason specific to Beta 1.
My swapping buddy rang this morning, and I told him about the 2.0 rating. His immediate reaction: "That's a thousand dollars a point."
I checked the WEI because of a new post at Microsoft's Engineering Windows 7 Weblog. I can't tell you how good the rating makes me feel about my new computer.
"Somebody showed you that it's not as shiny a penny. There's a shinier penny," my friend said. He's right. I'm more satisfied running Windows 7 on this laptop than any other with Windows Vista. But there's this psychological thing, of going from a three-eight to a, ah, two. It's not a good feeling, but it's not one likely to last. Gulp, hopefully.
According to today's E7 blog post, Microsoft has temporarily capped the rating for some hard drives. There are some issues related to caching that affect WEI scoring. Microsoft's Michael Fortin explains:
To reflect this real world learning, in the Windows 7 Beta code, we have capped scores for drives which appear to exhibit the problematic behavior (during the scoring) and are using our feedback system to send back information to us to further evaluate these results. Scores of 1.9, 2.0, 2.9 and 3.0 for the system disk are possible because of our current capping rules. Internally, we feel confident in the beta disk assessment and these caps based on the data we have observed so far. Of course, we expect to learn from data coming from the broader beta population and from feedback and conversations we have with drive manufacturers.
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Comments(23)
anyway the reason is probably cause you have a crappy mac, i have a computer that i
bought about 4 years ago with an amd athlon 64 3200+ 1gb or ddr ram, nvidia agp 6800gtoc
and 39gb of hard drive free and my windows 7 score is a 3.6 and i paid about... 350$ for
my computer.
there are no hard disk caps...
i have a seagate barracuda 7200rpm 120gb hard drive
with only 39gb remaining and it is rated alone a 5.2 in windows 7. sry pal
~jessiesrage
jessiesrage; it said its capped drives that exhibit certain issues, not all drives. and
it said he was using a sony vaio, not a mac. (the mac was traded to offset the vaio) if
you need help with reading comprehension i can have my 8yr old tutor you!
this is confirmed but the systems rating is not fully operational because most computers
hardrives will be at 2.0 because its either not supported at the moment (beta) or its a
shit harddrive so once the official windows 7 out it should be like 4.9 or something
if the person is on a vaio and the only score that is bad is a defective or problematic
hard drive, but the computer seems to work fine then w/e whats the point of this then...
if it is misreading well then atleast you have a hard drive that works fine, if its not
misreading get a new harddrive. also ugh a vaio.. nice bang for your buck...jk anyway
flbudz, ok def. misread the mac part i thought it was the vise versa giving away the vaio
for the mac, tho whatever the case, also how can these newer drives be giving these crazy
issuses if older ones are not, why are they special? also screw you flbudz not necessary
my wei is 3.0 because of the hard drive's rating. under vista my wei was 4.7
i have an acer aspire one and the wei is 2.1, it runs aero great with no lag (on the
integrated gma950). i can't believe how windows 7 is fast.
well, my vista wei is 4.9!!
and for some reason its the same under windows 7 beta!
at least i know my pd805 and 1600pro, 2gbram, 4 160gbhdd is not that bad!!
sorry to read so much argrument in this thread. if you are a serious computer person as i
am that work on several new and old computer everyday (including the i7), you will not
even talk about the rating. all you should care about is how well your computer perform
overall. to me, these index that base on the slowest performance hardware is a joke.
just for everyone information, newer hard drive has newer firmware and microcodes to speed
up disk access in particular for multi thread files access, that is when you are running
more than one application and each of the application try to access hard drive at the same
time. these micro code will try to priorities these requests and optimize the travel of
the read/write head to get the best performance. the firmware also has to decide what to
keep and what not to keep in the cache. therefore, the newer the drive, the less accurate
are all these older disk rating software. there has been significant hard disk speed
improvement for 3.5" hard drive at 320g and beyond using sata2. unfortunately, 2.5"
notebook hard drive is significantly slower than the 3.5" due to the cache memory,
spindle speed and the read/write head latency.
there is also no crappy mac or pc
because they basically use the same hardware. the only different really is in the
operating system, osx or windows.
yup it's ridiculous to rate base on the lowest score. ms should rate it evenly with avg.
score.
my seagates score is 5.8 in both vista and 7, and like it was said before who really
cares about these scores.i don't, my pc runs fine for me.
my laptop received a 2.0 as well under windows 7. ...except it probably deserved it
because in vista, the rating was a massive 2.9~3.0 depending on ram. (because everything
else falls under the "vista capable" sticker people saw on laptops from 2 years ago.)
vista x64 sp1: 5.8
7 x32: 6.0
7 x64: 5.9
specs: e8400, 4gb ddr2 800,
500hd maxtor, 8800gt 512
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=windows+7+data+transfer+rate+is+low&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq
=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-us:official&client=firefox-a
im very pleased with my 6.0 rating, went up from 5.9 on vista. got a 1tb seagate with
32mb cache, under a phenom 9600 and 8gb ram.
1 gb mem. amd1700+ 160gb hd i have been installed 4 time, each time it took 5-6 hours i
still have xp pro on it work like a dream i don't know where i done wrong, maybe the hd.
only manage to see the welcome screen twice,frustrating, can any u good people help,
thanks.
for goodness, stop comparing wei score with vista.
you people just need to
know the way wei scores get calculated is different from 7 and vista.
my hdd got a rating of
5.3 in vista
2.0 in win 7 b1
5.3 in win 7 b1 after
switching off disk catching....
microsoft did mention something in their blog about
this
come on people.... laptop hard drives run at 4200 rpm (most of them anyways) while
desktop hard drives run at 7200 rpm. its a mater of heat and energy consumption!
my ppc has a wd scorpio black 320 gb 7200 rpm sata, wei subscore 5.9 (vista & 7)...
forkicks, if your seagate is a st31000340as model, i very strongly recommend you go the
the seagate website and download the firmware update. some companies are reporting up to
a 40 percent fail rate on these drives, and its likely every non-updated drive will
eventually 'brick' itself.
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?docid=207951
its
also been downloadable from other websites for much longer, since seagate released it to
companies to cover themselves (but did extended testing before making them available on
their site).
its an extremely serious issue that covers several models of drives,
don't be complacent about it.
(the new firmware may also improve performance,
it did for a friend of mine anyway)
well my mahcine was rated 5.9 in vista, whereas in windows 7 it's rated at 5.5 due the
the ram which is ddr2 800mhz, quite slow compared to what you can get now, in all
fairness. my scores are:
7.2, 5.5, 7.9, 5.9, 5.9
i'm using a
seagate baracuda 7200 as the guy a few posts above, but the 250gb version. it rated 2.0
initially, turning ahci on raised that to 5.9 with vast improvements system wide, so...
for all people with low hdd ratings, enable ahci on your sata controllers!
i've got two seagate 320gb drives in raid 0 and only get 3.0 as a rating for the hard
drive.
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Lol retarded
By jessiesrage on 20.01.2009 - 02:01