July 13, 201114 yr Author Get the biggest you can afford! :Big Grin:If ca$h is no object, I would recommend one SSD (128 GBy) for Windows + FSX and the other for Sceneries (256 GBy). Or you could put Windows and FSX each on separate 64 GBy SSDs, and the scenery on the 256 GBy SSD. The more SSDs the merrier since you increase concurreny (throughput). Say each SSD has 100 MBy/Sec, three SSDs will have a max BW of 300 MBy/Sec rather than only 100 MBy/Sec for a single SSD three times the size. Of course the temptaion would be to arrange multiple SSDs in parallell in a RAID 0 arrangement to guarantee maximum BW, but unfortunatley the all-important Trim command doesn't work yet on arrayed SSDs.Cheers,- jahman.Trim, Raid, Throughput! All way over my head. I have been looking at the SSD pricing and see that will be very expensive, fast. I am running 2x WDC WD 1600AAJS's and 2x WDC WD 5000AAKS's today. Also a ST31000528S for storage, downloads, backups etc. The 150's are OS while the 500's are programs file disks; both XP Prox64 and Win7x64 respectively. Doing away with the XP OS which gives me an additional 150 and 500GBy HD's.All HD's are 7200 running in ide mode now. Would it be cheaper and a significant improvement in performance to change over to the VelociRaptors I see talked about so much?What about using the current drives in Raid? Not sure how to do that, but is it really worth it?ThanksRick S.
July 13, 201114 yr Trim, Raid, Throughput! All way over my head. I have been looking at the SSD pricing and see that will be very expensive, fast. I am running 2x WDC WD 1600AAJS's and 2x WDC WD 5000AAKS's today. Also a ST31000528S for storage, downloads, backups etc. The 150's are OS while the 500's are programs file disks; both XP Prox64 and Win7x64 respectively. Doing away with the XP OS which gives me an additional 150 and 500GBy HD's.All HD's are 7200 running in ide mode now. Would it be cheaper and a significant improvement in performance to change over to the VelociRaptors I see talked about so much?What about using the current drives in Raid? Not sure how to do that, but is it really worth it?ThanksRick S.If you get loads of photoscenery, your FSX start-up time with HDDs will be 10 minutes or more (vs. 1-2 minutes with SSDs.) For scenery your 7,200 rp, HDDs should be fine.Cheers,- jahman.
July 13, 201114 yr Author If you get loads of photoscenery, your FSX start-up time with HDDs will be 10 minutes or more (vs. 1-2 minutes with SSDs.) For scenery your 7,200 rp, HDDs should be fine.Cheers,- jahman.I believe I can live without photo scenery right now then; wow-10 minutes!ThanksRick S.
July 15, 201114 yr Author Okay, received FS Global 2010X; FS Global Ultimate The Americas & FS Global Ultimate Europe/Africa today. 18 DVDs, that's a lot of data!Anything special I should do/know before installing them? I assume I should run FTX Central and return the settings to Default FSX mode? Anything else?ThanksRick S.
July 15, 201114 yr Rent half a dozen videos to watch while you pop-in your scenery DVDs one after the other.After all was installed, what I did was get an external eSATA 2 TBy HDD and copy all the scenery to the drive so I would never have to use the DVDs again! Then defrag you drives.Cheers,- jahman.
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