I ran the Windows 7 experience test (WEI) yesterday, and I get an average of 7.5, only the hard disk test (disk data transfer) gives me 5.9 points, thus giving me a rating of 5.9, as the lowest subscore counts.

As I read so far it seems very difficult to get a higher score for the hard disk test, unless you have an SSD.

Quote Originally Posted by Techradar
Hard drive performance was always a difficult one: even with the last WEI, you had to opt for a Western Digital 10,000RPM Raptor, a RAID solution or be very picky with your main drive selection to hit the magical 5.9.

Even with two RAID0 SSD drives, we didn't achieve anything higher than 6.5. And frankly that's not the sort of solution we expect anyone to be regularly running even by the start of 2010.
Anyway, the system runs so slow, I can barely hear it running, although there's 6 fans on the case plus CPU,GPU and PSU fans! The HDDs are really silent too, that's why I got the Samsung F3 EcoGreen models, they also run only at 5.400.

I also updated the BIOS and all other motherboard drivers, which were all a bit older already. No I still need to install most of my software, currently I'm copying my files back from my old HDDs.

But at the moment I'm very pleased with my new system