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WEI scores are static, they do not change as newer hardware becomes available, the maximum score simply increases, here a quote from the MS description of WEI:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...perience-Index (Vista)As hardware speed and performance improves, higher base scores will be introduced. However, the standards for each level of the index stay the same. For example, a computer scored as a 2.8 will remain a 2.8 unless you decide to upgrade the computer's hardware.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...perience-Index (Windows 7)
I would be concerned if a piece of hardware had suddenly dropped in score by a significant amount. have you installed any software or drivers in the intervening time?
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yeah but i had like 7.8 and now something has changed![]()
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If you've noticed no speed loss then ignore it. It's entirely pointless looking at those scores.
Do you have the TRIM firmware installed?
I'm a bit of an SSD nab (even though I have one) but I think as they fill up even if stuff is deleted they slow down unless you use TRIM or run Intels Optimizer thingy.
Then again if you haven't noticed the decrease then possibly not. My rating has remained constant with my SSD at 7.8 (80GB G2 Intel)
As BobF64 says, did you set the SATA mode to IDE by accident? Sometimes if you reset BIOS then it'll set the SATA mode back to IDE on default and limit the bandwidth or something of the SSD. For me this pushes the SSD to 5.9 rating too.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that you just simply set the SATA mode back onto AHCI or RAID.
bios states AHCI, and from the screen shot it implies that TRIM is enabled - this bugs me
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The "supported features" could be misleading though, it could mean "this SSD supports these" or "this SSD is using these".
Which leads back to the driver being used, is it definitely the Microsoft default one and not the chipset, be that Intel, Nvidia or AMD, driver?
It does smell of usual SSD speed degredation that results from use when TRIM isnt used.
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Hmm, how would you go about telling if TRIM is enabled and working with Windows 7 64-bit Professional? (I have an Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD) Someone said before on HEXUS that it's all enabled by default, you don't need to touch the firmware?
Yea, as far as i know, as long as youre on Windows 7, have a TRIM supporting drive, the controller is in a TRIM operable mode (some dont work in RAID, just AHCI) and a TRIM supporting SATA controller driver (currently just the stock Microsoft one), it just works.
Well AFAIK if you installed the firmware that has TRIM support, you will also have downloaded the Intel Optimizer. ("Intel SSD Toolbox")
This will sort of do backwards TRIM for deletes already done, and will also fail to run if you havent got the proper TRIM enabled firmware. So running the optimizer would be my test to see whether everything is working.
Again, I'm not really an SSD expert, just sharing my experience
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