Ordered a SATA drive...

[Brian W]

I've ordered a Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA drive for installing Vista
Ultimate on next week. Nice model, with 16MB buffer. Hopefully all will go
well with the install!

 

[Byron Hinson]

Will do - great drive.

 

[Troy McClure]

what did you pay? i have a Seagate Cheetah drive (15,000 rpm) AND an Adaptec
Ultra320 SCSI card for sale. this is the same config im running Vista on now
and my harddrive scores a 6.1 (highest ive ever seen) ill give you the ebay
link if interested

 

[Brian W]

I paid UKP £55 for the drive. If your stuff's for sale in the US, I expect
shipping alone would be more than that!
Thanks anyway

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

Hmm, I thought 5.9 is currently a maximum for WEI scores.

 

[Troy McClure]

bug?

Hmm, I thought 5.9 is currently a maximum for WEI scores.

 

[Troy McClure]

interesting.... i found several people questioning their above 5.9 scores.
wonder if 5.9 really is supposed to be a limit and we have found a bug, or
if there IS no 5.9 limit.... my RAID5 SATA drive gets a 5.9.... SCSI Cheetah
gets a 6.1. now i wont sleep! LOL

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Post a screenshot of Device Manager and the WEI scores, please.

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

5.9 is the current maximium value, as comfirmed to me by a Microsoft
employee on IRC.

ss.

 

[Troy McClure]

perhaps he was wrong... i talk to "microsoft employees" all the time that
have bad info.
im not the only one reporting this oddity. i just need to know the bottom
line... is this a false score or not?

 

[Justin]

False, there is no such available score. I guess you weren't able to
provide the requested screenshot? Eh, wont mater anyway as it's nothing
more then an XML file that can be altered to show anything you want.

If the score is to be trusted then it's a bug.

 

[Gary]

Wrong Justin you have been misinformed.

False, there is no such available score. I guess you weren't able to
provide the requested screenshot? Eh, wont mater anyway as it's nothing
more then an XML file that can be altered to show anything you want.

If the score is to be trusted then it's a bug.

 

[Justin]

Then prove otherwise. I trust the Vista beta newsgroup over "any guy" any
day.

 

[Gary]

Think about it. As hardware gets faster its going to score well over the 5.9
that you think is the max.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Think about it. As hardware gets faster its going to score well over the
5.9 that you think is the max.

Those higher scores have not been enabled yet. 5.9 is the highest score
presently possible.

ss.

 

[Justin]

That's your reasoning behind telling me I'm wrong? Windows Update answers
your question.