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The forum thread discusses users' concerns about low disk experience ratings in Windows 7, despite using benchmarks like HD Tune that show high data transfer rates. Multiple contributors suggest updating drivers, enabling DMA and write caching, or adjusting partition sizes to improve performance scores. Overall, the users recognize issues with Windows 7’s performance measurement on certain systems, especially the x64 beta, but some also note that actual hardware performance appears satisfactory regardless of the low rating.
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mp3sgt

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I have a 250GB SATA 3GB/s Western Digital HD with 2 partitions, one of 30GB for 7 and the rest for my XP install. I have used HD tune to verify data transfer rates in the mid 75MB/s area at all times and yet, on the experience rating in Windows 7, it lists the HD experience as a lowly 2. Is this a bug, because I have more than 10GB free on my 7 partition, or does 7 not like partitions?

Also, I'm using my XP right now, but my other experience scores hover around 5-6.
 

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davehc
Open the Device Manager and open the Disk drives.
Right click the drive(s) and select properties. and then the policies tab.
Untick the two squares (Kyles earlier posting suggested ticking) Now reboot and run the WEI again. This is only going to work on IDE drives.
In most cases you will get a much higher score. You can tick the two items again, and it will not influence your score.
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I had 5.6 hard drive transfer rating in Vista and 3 in win 7.Got a better hard drive in the mail which I will install vista on.
 

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Here is my Windows 7 Experience score for 2 x Patriot SSD WARP SSDs in RAID0.

As you can see by the HDTune scores below. They simply can't hang with 3 x Velociraptors in RAID0, but they're Response Time, Windows 7 Score, and 150MBs average Read/Write is very nice, especially for their more affordable price ($150 each).

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