Doing that increased my hd rating from 3.0 to 5.7.
Doing that increased my HD rating from 3.0 to 5.9.
Doing that increased my hd rating from 3.0 to 5.7.
I have the same problem with my Seagate 250gb SATA 3 drive posting only a 3 on the WEI. Looking into my Motherboards BIOS settings, I see that my drive is set for “Native IDE†mode, and I think that may have something to do with how windows is seeing these drives. This was how it was set during my installation of win7. I should have changed it from Native to the AHCI mode, and then I would probaly be scoring higher. Next time, I will change these settings to see if that is the problem.
(from my mobo manual)
[FONT=ArialNarrow,Bold, sans-serif]OnChip SATA Type[/FONT]
[FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]Configures the operating mode of the integrated SATA controller. [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]Native IDE Allows the SATA controller to operate in Native IDE mode. (Default) [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]Enable Native IDE mode if you wish to install operating systems that support [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]Native mode, e.g. Windows XP/2000.[/FONT]
[FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]SATA ->AHCI Configures the SATA controller to AHCI mode. Advanced Host Controller [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing and [/FONT][FONT=ArialNarrow, sans-serif]hot plug.[/FONT]