5.9 WEI Score for SSD

[nate1232]

So I just built this pc about a week and a half ago, and its running very nicely. The only issue is that the WEI is giving my SSD a 5.9 rating.

I've been looking around on google and it seems the culprit is usually AHCI needing to be enabled. I checked in the bios, and AHCI is enabled and Registry (msahci) is "0". I ran the AS SSD Benchmark and was getting read speeds of ~500 and write ~250, with a score of ~610 so it seems like everything is how it is supposed to be. I made sure the SSD is plugged into 6GB/s SATA port (gray and first SATA port)

What else could be the issue? I don't think anything's wrong with the SSD, speeds look good. With a minimum of 7.5 on my other components, this is kinda bugging me.

Thanks!

 

[redbulluk33]

Thanks for this - after building my new computer with a Samsung EVO 850, I was getting a score of 5.9 (no other hard drives installed). After defragmenting the drive, hey presto, now up to 7.9!

thanks 🙂

 

[sk3ksis]

This solved the problem for me (Windows 7 x64 w/Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD, standard MSACHI driver).

My WEI suddenly dropped from 7.8 to 5.9. I tried everything, updating drivers, new firmware, formatting, but no improvement.

Here is the solution that worked for me:
(Make sure TRIM is enabled, and AHCI mode is enabled)

WEI disk test needs 1GB continuous space to test the disk properly. It doesn't matter if you have several GB's free as long as it not continuous.

1. Use the built-in disk defragmention tool to defragment files and consolidate free space. (I know, you shouldn't do this with a SSD disk, but believe me, it works!)
(Maybe a good idea to do some cleanup on your disk first with CCleaner etc. to get rid of useless junk files to free more space).
2. Next use CCleaner, under tools you will find Drive Wiper. Use this to wipe the free space on your SSD.
3. Let the computer idle for a while so that the TRIM function can do it's job properly, reboot.
4. Re-run WEI and see if it worked.

I got a new score from 5.9 to 7.7 when doing this!

JSR
Norway

Confirmed. This definitely worked for me. I went from a WEI score of 5.9 to 7.8 and an AS SSD score of 430 to 451. I had tried swapping out cables, unplugging all other HDDs, different SATA ports, updating firmware, changing AHCI, RAID and IDE settings in BIOS and changing registry settings. Thank you!

 

[Guest]

This solved the problem for me (Windows 7 x64 w/Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD, standard MSACHI driver).

My WEI suddenly dropped from 7.8 to 5.9. I tried everything, updating drivers, new firmware, formatting, but no improvement.

Here is the solution that worked for me:
(Make sure TRIM is enabled, and AHCI mode is enabled)

WEI disk test needs 1GB continuous space to test the disk properly. It doesn't matter if you have several GB's free as long as it not continuous.

1. Use the built-in disk defragmention tool to defragment files and consolidate free space. (I know, you shouldn't do this with a SSD disk, but believe me, it works!)
(Maybe a good idea to do some cleanup on your disk first with CCleaner etc. to get rid of useless junk files to free more space).
2. Next use CCleaner, under tools you will find Drive Wiper. Use this to wipe the free space on your SSD.
3. Let the computer idle for a while so that the TRIM function can do it's job properly, reboot.
4. Re-run WEI and see if it worked.

I got a new score from 5.9 to 7.7 when doing this!

JSR
Norway

Thanks, dude. I have been trying to fix this for hours.

 

[chris2u]

This solved the problem for me (Windows 7 x64 w/Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD, standard MSACHI driver).

My WEI suddenly dropped from 7.8 to 5.9. I tried everything, updating drivers, new firmware, formatting, but no improvement.

Here is the solution that worked for me:
(Make sure TRIM is enabled, and AHCI mode is enabled)

WEI disk test needs 1GB continuous space to test the disk properly. It doesn't matter if you have several GB's free as long as it not continuous.

1. Use the built-in disk defragmention tool to defragment files and consolidate free space. (I know, you shouldn't do this with a SSD disk, but believe me, it works!)
(Maybe a good idea to do some cleanup on your disk first with CCleaner etc. to get rid of useless junk files to free more space).

1. Next use CCleaner, under tools you will find Drive Wiper. Use this to wipe the free space on your SSD.
2. Let the computer idle for a while so that the TRIM function can do it's job properly, reboot.
3. Re-run WEI and see if it worked.

I got a new score from 5.9 to 7.7 when doing this!

JSR
Norway

Thanks!!
When I put the rig together a few years ago the WEI was 7.9 but had recently dropped to 5.9.
So I followed the procedure and was a "naughty boy" and defragged it. ( It was 43% fragmented )

That brought it's score up to 7.8 and I even gained 10GB of disk space !