When I built my new rig last year I cheaped out on the hard-drive and got a 7200 RPM Samsung, and it showed in my Windows Experience Index Score too….my “weakest link” at 5.3. Recently I did some data recovery stuff for a member of my extended family, and as a thankyou present they bought me a 150GB WD Raptor. W00t. My WEI score is up to 5.5 now (the bottleneck has shifted to my 4GB of RAM) and the raptor scores a 5.9 for HDD perf which isn’t surprising. The only small downside is I have to do a fresh install of windows to really reap the benefits. Oh well, at least I’ll have a relatively clean machine for Vista SP1….due out in 48 hours or so.
when are you gonna blog about your awesome sparkle button!!??
share it with the world man! bring down civilisation!
not to mention the TFS viewer.