Aother thing to remember about "back in the day" was that most sites didn't reall care what OS the computer ran.

You bought a computer and support contract and every now and then an SE would come and update it. All you needed to know were some of the utilities like command language and query.

Anyways, back to Windows 8. I now have an answer for ua549 and a SATA III SSD.

This is now running on a Corsair Force Series 3 solid state SATA III drive, and scores 7.5/7.9. This is 27% better than SATA II at 5.9 whilst in theory it should be 100% and even comparing SATA II and III transfer rates it is claimed to be 92%.

Although the Windows Experience Index says data transfer rates, it seems as if there are other factors built into the equation?

I have another one to install into a Windows 7 box so it will be interesting to see if the results are the same?