Poo WEI scores?

[alienware]

So my main rig used to score 7.3 all the way to the SSD that scored 6.9. Then last week my SSD dropped to 6.7 and now today 5.9. Eh?

I ran an ATTO, still as good as ever.

So the other PC would only get a score of 5.5 for the memory. So, tonight, for a laugh I put in the dominator and set it to 4-4-4-12 in bios. Still 5.5

Have they bloody broken it?

I know every one says to ignore it because it counts for diddly, but surely there has to be something wrong there? I would be worried if it was just one computer, but the scores on both have dropped badly

 

[AMDFTW]

no its just a gash rating system and it means jack fella

 

[lasher]

Think I read about catalyst CCC acting up with WEI somewhere.

 

[alienware]

Well on the other machine with the low memory rating I have read loads of reasons why that would happen. Sadly I realised that I had ran ATTO on my patriot, and when I ran it on the Corsair.. bad news. Terrible. 18mb writes and 105 reads.

Now either it's knackered or TRIM hasn't been working or something has corrupted it.

I tried running Acronis to a previous date (and here I am !) but alas, it's still FUBAR.

I'm going to load up Diskpart in a minute and unlock and sec erase it, but if that doesn't work it's going to need to be RMA.

 

[Diablo]

Even when I had a 400MB+ read write speed I still got 5.9 Its just a rating that doesn't work very well. It also doesn't notice more than one GPU (I watched afterburner while it ran). I was going to suggest a sec erase, but looks like your already on it. Hope it works out better, or RMA that mother.

 

[alienware]

Was definitely the Corsair. And I have definitely fixed it.

I think I know what happened too.

A couple of weeks back I fitted a SATA 150 controller for a DVD drive I didn't have a spare channel for. Well, after numerous BSODS and storage controller errors I was forced to pull it. Since then the drive has degraded fast so I think TRIM wasn't working.

Just booted into partmagic and ran a secure erase and unfreeze and I am now hitting 130 write 230 read, as if the drive was new. Recloned with Acronis and scored a 6.9 as I should, which is limited by my SATA controller as it used to hit 7.2 when it was in my Crosshair II.

I have also discovered that for boot times my Corsair pees on the Patriot, so that is going in the other machine as running games from it was a bit poo really, didn't improve anything and a bit of a waste of an SSD

Which will then make way for me to reconnect my dvdrw on SATA.