I just recently upgraded to a new hard drive
, Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording), and my GWX 2.1 + SH3 Commander w/Rollback loading a save game from 1940 near a convoy =
From SH3 Commander Start Game Button to Main Menu usable = 48 seconds
From Yes, Load Save Game to 3D interior viewable = 2 minutes 19 seconds
This was a huge difference from my old hard drive which often took 4-5 minutes to load a game. Rest of the PC is a P4 2.13GHz, 2GB of RAM.