Western Digital Caviar Black and RE4 2TB Drives Review

We timed the loading of three games, Far Cry 2, Resident Evil 5 and Wolfenstein, with these parameters:

• Each game was installed from Steam to prevent optical disk access during timing. 
• We started Steam before testing. 
• We defragmented each drive before testing. 
• We timed games immediately after they were freshly installed. 
• We cleared all pre- and superfetch data in between each test. 
• Timing started when we double-clicked the game's icon in the Game Explorer folder. 
• Timing ended when the first logo, of any sort, appeared on screen. 
• We performed each game loading test three times and averaged the results for each drive's performance score.