Samsung 32GB Solid State Drive

Author: Richard Swinburne
Published: 21st July 2007
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Oblivion Game Save Loads

Oblivion at high resolution and detail was used, with a reboot between each game load to avoid data pre-caching into memory. Two separate save games were tested.

Oblivion Save Game Load Time #1

512MB Memory

  • Samsung 32GB SSD
  • Western Digital 74GB Raptor, 10,000RPM
  • Seagate 160GB 7200.9, 7200RPM
  • 22.3
  • 25.2
  • 25.6
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5
10
15
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25
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Oblivion Save Game Load Time #2

512MB Memory

  • Samsung 32GB SSD
  • Western Digital 74GB Raptor, 10,000RPM
  • Seagate 160GB 7200.9, 7200RPM
  • 22.1
  • 24.4
  • 35.6
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10
20
30
40
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Oblivion Save Game Load Time #1

2GB Memory

  • Samsung 32GB SSD
  • Western Digital 74GB Raptor, 10,000RPM
  • Seagate 160GB 7200.9, 7200RPM
  • 9.5
  • 11.0
  • 15.5
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5.5
8
10.5
13
15.5
18
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

Oblivion Save Game Load Time #2

2GB Memory

  • Samsung 32GB SSD
  • Western Digital 74GB Raptor, 10,000RPM
  • Seagate 160GB 7200.9, 7200RPM
  • 12.3
  • 17.7
  • 10.5
0
5
10
15
20
Time in Seconds (lower is better)

A straight game load is faster in nearly all accounts. It's only a couple of seconds at best though, but it's a step in the right direction.
Strangely we got an anomalous result with the second Oblivion save game loading time, with 2GB of memory actually being significantly faster on a 7200RPM drive. We tested each save game loading several times to get a consistent result, but we just can't find the reason why it was always significantly faster in this particular test.

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