Thread: Windows Experience Index

Does anybody know roughly where WD raptor 300gb hard drive should be scoring on win 7 experience index, mine is 5.9 (out of 7.9) and it seems a little low for what is a 10,000 RPM hard drive (and I have more than 200gb of the 300gb free space) is the remaining 2.0 points taken up with SSD drives?

According to this: Windows Experience Index: Understand and improve your computer's performance in Windows Vista

5.9 is the highest...

Originally Posted by Exa

According to this: Windows Experience Index: Understand and improve your computer's performance in Windows Vista

5.9 is the highest...

Yes although that article is about vista, because the index runs between 1.0 and 5.9 for Windows Vista and between 1.0 and 7.9 for Windows 7
I'm intereseted about the index for windows 7

i have 2 300gb velociraptors in raid 0 and i only get 5.9, to get higher, you need an ssd for seek times.

I honestly do not see the point in having the HDD as part of the windows experience index. It's not like that factors into any games played on your PC seeing as the rating (at least when it first came out) was geared towards letting you know if your system could handle certain PC games and or graphic intense programs.

Originally Posted by Enigma78

I honestly do not see the point in having the HDD as part of the windows experience index. It's not like that factors into any games played on your PC seeing as the rating (at least when it first came out) was geared towards letting you know if your system could handle certain PC games and or graphic intense programs.

The hard drive may not effect the quality of what you do, but it greatly effects the speed at which you do it. That's true especially for graphic intense programs, they require more data to be read off a hard drive.