Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive

Game Level Loading

With a fresh copy of Vista installed on each hard disk, the final test was to find out if the Windows loading times seen above would also be applicable to the map loading time of a popular PC game. Once again, the test procedure was quite simple: Install Call of Duty 4: Modern Warefare, load the game, select a map to play and measure the time taken from pressing the “Begin” button to the time the map is fully loaded. This procedure was repeated a total of three times on each of the hard disks, with a reboot in between each test to clear system memory.

 

 

Interestingly, the performance difference here is quite marginal. I was actually expecting more significant  performance gains over the Seagate Barracuda 80GB.

 

Let’s head over the page to see what conclusions we can draw on the Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000…