Setting Up the Benchmarks for Storage Reviews
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 on the same drive. This benchmark will test both the read and 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.
| Copy Test Average Time Taken | Average Transfer Rate |
| 198s | 36.6 MB/s |
Crysis Warhead Ambush Level Load
Crysis Warhead 64-bit was used for this test. In this benchmark, I loaded up a save game on the first level of the game. The time taken to load the level can be seen in the console, which can be accessed by ‘~’ key. Here is a screen demonstrating the same.
The test is performed 3 times and the results are averaged.
| Level Load Test Average Time Taken |
| 54.8s |
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