Windows Experience Index 5.9 - Do I Need A New Hard Drive?

System C Drive is an SSD, A is a RAID 0 (2 x 2 TB SATA III) and B is a RAID 0 (2 x 1.5 TB SATA II)
The WEI was 7.2, but is now 5.9, because of 'Data Transfer Rate' I get no other fail indications.
I performed the PPMB6, although the 'statistics' function is not working. It rendered pretty slow with or without CUDA, but had nothing to compare to.
Some info from Speccy:
Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit
32 GB RAM
Hard Drives
A Drive: Projects
      Interface RAID
   Capacity 3726GB
   Real size 4,000,792,444,928 bytes
   RAID Type Software RAID
    S.M.A.R.T
    Partition 0
     Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
     Disk Letter A:
     File System NTFS
     Volume Serial Number E6DF8ADC
     Size 3726GB
     Used Space 1650GB (45%)
     Free Space 2076GB (55%)
B Drive: PreviewPagefile
      Serial Number ?? ?????k? ?????
   Interface SATA
   Capacity 2795GB
   Real size 3,000,598,790,144 bytes
   RAID Type None
    S.M.A.R.T
    Partition 0
     Partition ID Disk #1, Partition #0
     Disk Letter B:
     File System NTFS
     Volume Serial Number 7427F143
     Size 2794GB
     Used Space 690GB (25%)
     Free Space 2105GB (75%)
C Drive: Patriot Wildfire SSD
      Serial Number PT1145A00024401
   LBA Size 48-bit LBA
   Power On Count 283 times
   Power On Time 321.7 days
   Speed, Expressed in Revolutions Per Minute (rpm) Not used (SSD Drive)
   Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ, TRIM, SSD
   Transfer Mode SATA III
   Interface SATA
   Capacity 112GB
   Real size 120,034,123,776 bytes
   RAID Type None
    S.M.A.R.T
     01 Read Error Rate 089 (089 worst) Data 000323C9F1
     05 Reallocated Sectors Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000
     09 Power-On Hours (POH) 092 (092) Data 0000001E29
     0C Device Power Cycle Count 100 (100) Data 000000011B
     AB 000 (000) Data 0000000000
     AC 000 (000) Data 0000000000
     AE 000 (000) Data 000000005A
     B1 000 (000) Data 0000000004
     B5 000 (000) Data 0000000000
     B6 000 (000) Data 0000000000
     BB Reported Uncorrectable Errors 100 (100) Data 0000000000
     C2 Temperature 028 (057) Data 000039001C
     C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 120 (120) Data 000323C9F1
     C4 Reallocation Event Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000
     C9 Soft Read Error Rate 120 (120) Data 000323C9F1
     CC Soft ECC Correction 120 (120) Data 000323C9F1
     E6 GMR Head Amplitude 100 (100) Data 0000000064
     E7 Temperature 100 (100) Data 0000000000
     E9 000 (000) Data 00000011DB
     EA 000 (000) Data 0000000FD7
     F1 Total LBAs Written 000 (000) Data 0000000FD7
     F2 Total LBAs Read 000 (000) Data 00000021BE
     Temperature 28 °C
     Temperature Range ok (less than 50 °C)
     Status Good
    Partition 0
     Partition ID Disk #2, Partition #0
     Disk Letter C:
     File System NTFS
     Volume Serial Number A27724F8
     Size 112GB
     Used Space 68GB (61%)
     Free Space 44GB (39%)
Motherboard
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model P8P67 PRO (LGA1155)
Version System Version
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model Sandy Bridge
Chipset Revision 09
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model P67
Southbridge Revision B3
System Temperature 32 °C
BIOS
   Brand American Megatrends Inc.
   Version 3602
   Date 11/01/2012
Voltage
   CPU CORE 1.040 V
   MEMORY CONTROLLER 1.024 V
   AVCC 3.392 V
   3VCC 3.376 V
   VIN4 1.008 V
   VIN6 0.832 V
CPU
Intel Core i7 2600K
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Alex,
You can pretty much ignore WEI for the most part. Of the many various benchmarks around, that is one of the least telling indicators.
PPBM is good to see how the various components of your system are performing in addition to how you have configured where various files are stored, etc. You need to however run the PPBM5 test no though to make useful comparisons with published test results.
Your C drive performance does not impact either PPBM5 scores or real world editing nearly as much as the working drive or drive arrays where your projects, media, cache, scratch, and exports are stored.
I don't personally use CrystalMark but the read/write scores for 4k files looked very slow for a RAID 0 array. Make sure your caching policy is set up for maximum performance (disk properties / hardware tab / properties / policies tab / enable write caching & turn off windows write-cache buffer flushing).
Regards,
Jim

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