Borderlands 2 Load time
For Borderlands 2 we have recorded the time it takes to fast travel from Sanctuary map to Oasis. Oasis is the beginning of the Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty DLC. This was chosen as it not only is a special level not included in the original Borderlands 2 game and thus contains additional data which should slow the load of this special map.
CoD: Ghosts Load time
For the Call of Duty: Ghosts we timed the level load time for the map called Into the Deep in the single player game. This level was chosen as it contains a large map and loads a lot of data from the storage device to the GPU.
Saints Row 3 Load time
For Saints Row 3 (labelled ‘SR3’ in the chart) we have recorded the load time from a specific save game. The game was saved just at the end of the ‘Shaundi saved’ version of “Three Way Ending” but before the cut scene. This was chosen as the game not only loads the Three Way Ending data but also the next level “Gangsta’s in Space” DLC level.
When it comes to read centric scenarios like games just about any modern SATA based solid-state drive is going to be good but not a great option – and the MX500 1TB is no exception. Just like VMWare users, RAID should be seriously considered if you want the lowest game load times possible without going the NVMe route. In other words, the MX500 1TB is fast for a SATA drive but there are certain limitations that even God cannot overcome.
