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

For whatever reason, our test system takes its sweet time booting into Windows with terabyte hard drives. The F1 is no exception, although among the terabyte drives we've tested, it's marginally the fastest.

Level load times are mixed for the F1. In Doom 3, the Spinpoint beats its closest rivals and falls short of only a couple of 10K-RPM Raptors. Far Cry sees the Spinpoint in the middle of the field, a couple of seconds off the pace set by the fastest terabyte offering, which in this case is the Deskstar 7K1000.