Launching F1 2011
Even though our F1 2011 installation only monopolizes 12 GiB, launching the game is more storage-intensive than Battlefield 3. Our Vertex 3 has to read about 600 MB to get from the launch button to selecting a Grand Prix race.
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| Overall Statistics | F1 2011: Launching |
|---|---|
| Elapsed Time | 00:49 |
| Read Operations | 8 686 |
| Write Operations | 505 |
| Data Read | 592.30 MB |
| Data Written | 3.28 MB |
| Disk Busy Time | 1.82 s |
| Average Data Rate | 326.91 MB/s |
Most transfers are 128 KB in size, which makes sense considering that a majority of accesses are sequential. Only 21% of the process is random. This reflects the structure of the Steam-based F1 2011 installation. There aren't many files of varying sizes strewn across the drive. Instead, all of the game data is localized to a few large files. However, SSDs excel at speeding up random accesses. As a result, you don’t have queue depths stacking up like you would see on a hard drive.
I/O Trends:
- 62% of all operations occur at a queue depth of one
- 36% of all operations occur between queue depths of two and four
- 79% of all operations are sequential
- 5% of all operations are 4 KB in transfer size
- 10% of all operations are 8 KB in transfer size
- 80% of all operations are 128 KB in transfer size
