Boot and load times
To test system boot and game level load times, we busted out our trusty stopwatch.

For whatever reason, all of our terabyte drives boot into Windows XP rather slowly. Among them, the ES.2 at least comes out ahead of offerings from Hitachi and Western Digital.

Our level load time tests are less encouraging for the ES.2. The drive again finds itself at the back of the field, losing to nearly all of its direct rivals.