Steam Unpacking and Decryption

When a new game is released, and you want to be the first to play, you're often held back by the time it takes Steam to decrypt and unpack the preload data. We timed the duration of the process for a 20 GB game installation. (HDD reference score: 574.3 s)

ISO File Copy

The ISO disc image of Windows 10 64-bit gets copied to a different folder on the same drive. This represents a typical large-file usage model. (HDD reference score: 89.0 s)

MP3 Indexing

We're running Winamp to import a thousand songs into the media library by reading the ID3 tag. (HDD reference score: 2.7 s)