SSD Slower performance?

[Pat123]

I recent build a rig for my brother and as the primary boot drive i'm using a corsair force 3 120gb SSD drive, but the windows experience index (which i know isn't the be all and end all) is only giving the SSD a score of 5.9, this is in windows 7, all my other scores are 7.8 or 7.9 I believe.

Could there be any reason for this? Is there a program I can use to better test the speeds?

*edit* It's using the SATA3 port and the mother board and I believe it is all set-up correctly.

 

[yassarikhan786]

Don't worry about the WEI scores mate. Like you said it isn't the be all and end all. It randomly changes my Gaming graphics and Graphics from 7.9 to 7.2. When I run the assessment again it changes back to 7.9.

 

[SPS]

An SSD should definitely be a higher than 5.9 though but I don't really know a great deal about them so I'm not sure what to suggest.

 

[Pat123]

I ran the ATTO benchmark tool and got:

514984 for write

552842 for read on the final part of the bench mark 8192.0

Which seem fine to me, so i have no idea what the wei is going on about.

 

[SPS]

Re-run the assessment? Well as long as the drive is performing normally just ignore it

 

[S_I_N]

are you sure its testing the ssd??? it may be testing a backup drive I'd disconnect the storage drive and re-run it

 

[Firat]

It runs it on the primary drive, the drive with page file saved on it will be the primary one.

 

[S_I_N]

true dat but one never knows what drive paths others have setup if it sees the hdd as a lower alpha then it may check that instead of the ssd but he did say it was set as primary