crucial c300 SSD 5.9 WEI score

Hi, so I just got this ssd last night and I completely replaced my dvd drive with an HDD caddy holding a 1 tera drive.

it does boot fast and such. it is wonderful, the SSD. Tried the wei and I scored a 5.9 I understand that normally this would be at 7+.

I checked around the interwebs and... trim is enabled, ahci is on, prefetch/superfetch/theotherfetch has been turned off. Most logging has been turned off. Is there anything else I need to do for windows to maximize the ssd?

Thanks~

 

did you clean install on the ssd or simply use a backup and recovered to the ssd ? a little more info would be of great help..

 

oh right. acronis image back up. I forgot to include that. booted from usb drive - back up was on an external drive, loaded on to the SSD with both SSD and new 1tb hdd [unformatted at the time] on the caddy. When I got back to windows, I immediately formatted/partitioned the 1tb and proceeded to copy my backed up files from the previous 500gb hdd. I did the wei after the whole setup. Even wiped wei score.

 

*double post

it seems keeping my slave 1tb drive connected is causing the score to drop. That's one theory I don't want to find out because... it takes WAY too much effort to reach the optical drive/hdd caddy area =\

Here's a link to my one single benchmark test on as ssd

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the speed seems decent

 

i have the same ssd that you have but not optical hdd, and my is at 7.7 and 7.5 overall
i agree that your optical hdd is messing with your score



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if the acronis backup was installed to the SSD but the original backup made with Acronis was made on a HDD then you will need to uninstall the intel chipset and the ahci driver (intel matrix) or (intel rapid storage technology) or whatever its called now.
firstly uninstall the intel rapid storage technology/intel matrix from "programs and features" once done reboot, DO NOT INSTALL IT AGAIN YET. then goto system properties/device manager under "universal serial bus controllers" uninstall them all but DO NOT REBOOT. then open up "system devices" and uninstall everything that has "Intel" in front of it DO NOT REBOOT till all are uninstalled. once everything is uninstalled reboot and once the system goes back into windows it will auto start installing missing drivers (don't panic) let it do it. once finished reboot. then install the intel chipset driver (ibex) I think its called and the intel rapid storage technology/intel matrix driver and all should be the way it should be once you update the WEI score.

ONLY DO THIS if the backup that you recovered to the new ssd was made originally from a hdd ( non solid state drive)

 

Honestly is the number from this Windows report so important? Its stored in a .xml you can edit if you ever wanted. Either do as Batfinks suggested or clean install on the SSD. This is what you'll need to deal with when restoring from a HDD to SSD on a image when still having a HDD attached to the system on a new run.

For the effort; I score: 7.5/7.5/7.9/7.9/7.7, the last being my SSD. It has picked up 7.9 and at times lower, frankly, it means nothing what windows thinks.

 

Thanks Bat, system number inflation: success!

Dave, it sort of does. When online reports of what windows thinks is in a certain range for a certain piece of hardware and I have that same hardware, I would imagine mine is under performing if I'm not anywhere near that ballpark. I want to be in that ballpark. Benchmarks too. While the numbers are decent before what bat told me to do [thanks again Bat], mexic00l's post says I'm below 20% beneath his benchmark of the same piece of hardware. Given that we don't have the same exact setup, I think ~20% is a pretty big difference.

 

glad it sorted now