After installing, my Windows Experience rating is 5.9. I thought with SSD I would get 6 or 7. Is this expected?
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I got 7.8. just keep in mind that the total score is equivalent to the least performing part
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This hard disk should affect the subscore for "Primary hard disk", assuming you made it your C drive and installed windows on it. With it, my subscore is 8.1 running Windows 8 Pro 64. It's actually my highest subscore. My lowest is 7.3 for my graphics card (AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB GDDR5).
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for my SSD the experiance with the primary HDD is 7.9 with the Samsung 840 Pro
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I'm maxxing out with a 7.9 ... So I'm not sure what's wrong. Maybe you are running it on SATA II
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If you have any other drive(s) in the system, it/they could be the culprit. I have found on many occasions that Windows will get confused in some way and not test the new SSD as the "primary drive". If possible, disconnect any other drive so that Windows will be certain to see the SSD as your primary OS drive and re-test. Your disk subscore in the Experience index should be something above 7.
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Your base WEI score is determined by by the lowest score of any aspect of your pc, so if your graphics card was a 5.9 before the SSD install your WE score will remain a 5.9 after the install because it can never be better than the lowest score. Your individual score for the primary drive should have raised to a 7.9 unless you plugged it in to a 3gb per second port. Also did you click on the Re run assessment option, if you did not the WEI score will not update by itself so you may still be looking at the old score.
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My Windows Experience rating FOR THE DISK DRIVES went from 5.7 to 7.9 after installing this drive. That's the maximum. I also did a speed comparison test between the (spinning-type) HDD that came on my Dell 8700 and this SSD. The SSD reads or writes sequentially, 13 times faster than the HDD; the SSD reads or writes randomly, 375 times faster than the HDD (that's not a typo).
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Hello. It will vary. You should probably see about 230GB usable remaining space give or take after the install of Windows 7.
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That sounds about right. After I installed my 64gb and OS I had 55gb free. If everything is working okay than you are good.
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Because ~5% is partitioned off by the manufacturer for the purposes of read/write - as you do not defrag am SSD, this is required to allow the data to be cleaned up within the system This is still a 512 disc, which will actually mean ~500 for use, less ~5% for SSD specific cleanup tasking - unlike "normal" HDDs the 480 noted is the amount you will actually have to access
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That is normal. The system reserves a portion for "operating overhead." Only the difference is available. I have 4 gb installed, 2 x 2; only 3.0 is available.
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Yes those are all pretty universal these days so by all means feel free to upgrade to SSD :) Enjoy :)
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Well I really don't know for sure. I got Windows 7 because of all the trouble with Windows 8. The IT guy that works at my employment said this was a good computer and that there were not many Windows 7 left out there. I really like it. I can tell you what the sticker says on the computer if that will help. It states it is Intel Core i5 3230M 2.6 ghz with turbo boost up to 3.2 ghz..Sorry I could not help anymore than this, but I do like it a lot. I did see under system properties that is a Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
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Ron ... I did not attempt to downgrade. I am still getting used to Windows 8, which for how I use this machine is overkill. But I am banging my head on the counter less these days. The PC itself is great. I had a Terabyte of SSD installed and 9 months later I am still experiencing 7-9 second boot up time.
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I had not attempted raid yet, it does however afford me a score of 7.9 on win 7 x64 with a sata III SSD though....
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I have no idea, I have the 500 GB HDD version, not the lower storage capacity SSD version.
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Deffinitely, on the bottom there's the graph showing HDD transfer rate. In my system almost everything is 6.9 or 7+ but HDD is the bottleneck and so it's 5.9 just like the lowest bottleneck. If your video card and ram are good, newer faster HDD has to raise the score.I'm getting it due to horrendous loading times on almost everything by now, not some score. PC and HDD is 4 years old, started to show. Score has to improve too though.Update as of 03/18/2015: was 5.9 transfer rate, now 7.6 transfer rate.
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I really couldn't say; I'm pretty sure it's the most up to date. I'm very satisfied with it, and it comes with Windows 8 and 8.1 discs, as well as the 7 already installed.
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I see no improvement. I just wasted time and money. As soon as I can I'm putting my 2tb drive back in. If you try it don't expect ssd speed
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I agree with Eric. I always thought the SSD was just there as a disk cache and that appears to be the way it is treated. It works and it is fast. Take a look in Control Panel at "System" and then "Device Manager" and then "Disk Drives" and you will see the SSD listed separately from the hard disk drive. (I'm running Win 8.1)
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I run Windows 7 and have been satisfied. An occasional speed bump, but not too annoying.
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5.9 because the hdd is not top flight. But it is a very fast machine. The 24GB internal SSD (system run only) is what probably gives it such speedy performance, bypassing a lot of hdd ops. Takes a long time to awake from hibernation, though. We just turn off the monitor instead. A very good and fast computer.
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My concern was to get Windows 7, 64 bit. As far as the rest, I don't really know, but I have downloaded for free anything I have wanted to add.