Seagate 7200.12 1 TB Hard Drive Review

Crysis Warhead Game Folder copy folder to the same drive

In this test I install the Crysis Warhead game to the drive being benchmarked. Then I copy that game folder to another folder on the same drive using Microsoft’s Robocopy GUI and output the time taken to copy the game folder onto the same drive. This benchmark will test both the read and the write speeds of the drive at the same time. I choose Crysis Warhead for this purpose as this game has a lot of files of various sizes. This should test the hard disk transfer speeds across vast sizes of files and mimic a real world scenario.

The game was patched with the 1.1 and 1.1 hotfix patch which introduces the 64-bit executable. The test is performed 3 times and the results averaged.

All of those gains in synthetic benches are also showing up here as the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 drive manages to copy a nearly 7 GB folder (1594 files) to itself, 28 seconds faster than the competition.