Raise WinSAT HDD Assessment Score.

[Panda X]

How to increase HDD speed in 7 and up the WinSAT score for HDD.

Start -> devmgmt.msc -> Disk Drives -> Right Click -> Properties -> Policies -> Untick 'Enable write caching on this device.' Re-run WinSAT.

Your score should be what it was in Vista now.

[Inctye]

I never really understood what the point of this whole number is to begin with. It is nothing more than a meaningless number. Just my two cents.

[Brandon Live Veteran]

Disabling the write cache seems like a terrible idea...

I never really understood what the point of this whole number is to begin with. It is nothing more than a meaningless number. Just my two cents.

It isn't meaningless. If it gets capped to 2.0 or 3.0, it means your drive has poor latency and that your system would be significantly more responsive with a faster hard drive.

[Chris123NT]

Disabling the write cache seems like a terrible idea...

It isn't meaningless. If it gets capped to 2.0 or 3.0, it means your drive has poor latency and that your system would be significantly more responsive with a faster hard drive.

Brandon, while in theory your explanation makes sense, the fact that disabling write cache also fixes this issue pretty well blows that theory out of the water. I'm looking into this with a few people this weekend, because there's got to be a reason for this, more than we're being told it seems.

[JOHW]

Works for me too. From 2.0 -> 4.0 (Vista score)

Technically enabling that setting should improve performance?

[FiB3R]

Mine went up from 3.0 to 5.4

From being the worst performing part of this laptop, to the best lol

[qdave]

mine is already 5.2 so i guess no point trying to change anything.

[FiB3R]

Why not, it go's upto 7.9

I don't know how much real world performance is to be gained though.

[scaramonga]

I get 6.0 with 'write cache' ON and 5.5 with it OFF.

I get 3.0 with 'write flush' ON and 6.0 with it OFF.

Go figure.

[FiB3R]

Where is the 'write flush' option?

[Brandon Live Veteran]

I get 6.0 with 'write cache' ON and 5.5 with it OFF.

I get 3.0 with 'write flush' ON and 6.0 with it OFF.

Go figure.

That makes more sense.

Disabling the write flush option could very well improve performance, at the risk of increased data loss in the event of an improper shutdown.