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

Despite dominating WorldBench, the X25-E is only a middle-of-the-pack performer in our boot time test. It's essentially tied with the X25-M here, and that puts it more than six seconds slower than Samsung's FlashSSD.

SSDs dominate our level load tests, with the Extreme curiously turning in a slower Far Cry load time than the X25-M. Even then, it's still a couple of seconds faster than the VelociRaptor.