What type of drive does everyone use to run FSX ? 1. 10 000rpm Velociraptor 2. SDD3. 7200rpm standard HDD My Raptor drive has not arrived yet and I am thinking of just partitioning my 7200rpm drive to install FSX. Wondering what everyone else uses. I have used a Raptor before. Great for FSX.

7200 rpm, 10,000 rpm Raptor or Velociraptor - they are all very slow compared with an SSD. But don't expect any frame rate improvement. All you get is faster load times. That said, I wouldn't willingly go back to a HDD. Less power, less heat and a PC that boots in around 30 sec. Who wouldn't want that? Cheers, Noel.

What type of drive does everyone use to run FSX ? 1. 10 000rpm Velociraptor2. SDD3. 7200rpm standard HDD My Raptor drive has not arrived yet and I am thinking of just partitioning my 7200rpm drive to install FSX. Wondering what everyone else uses. I have used a Raptor before. Great for FSX.

Wait for the raptor and put FSX on the raptor. The idea to put FSX on it's own drive, a raptor, has been around for a while. Technology has advanced and SSD do offer exceptional value for most programs, but not for FSX. Large SSDs are still very expensive. I use an SSD for my OS and a RevoDrive 240g for FSX and I will never go back to traditional drives. Time is money and SSDs save time.

Wait for the raptor and put FSX on the raptor. The idea to put FSX on it's own drive, a raptor, has been around for a while. Technology has advanced and SSD do offer exceptional value for most programs, but not for FSX. Large SSDs are still very expensive. I use an SSD for my OS and a RevoDrive 240g for FSX and I will never go back to traditional drives. Time is money and SSDs save time.

Thanks *******. I run my OS from my 60GB SSD and previosuly ran FSX from my dedicated Raptor. Worked pretty well. My previous machine went in for a repair 2 weeks ago - however the couriers damaged the PC onroute and paid for a newly built machine from Overclockers using my spec from last year. Unfortunately they didn't return my Raptor with the new delivery, so am waiting for it to arrive. I'll just wait until next week, i guess.... Erich

I agree, put FSX on it's own dedicated drive. I had it on a Raptor for years, but have moved it to an SSD.It is fast and quiet! The Raptor has a backup copy of FSX with lots of stuff I do not use..The 64 GB SSD has a lean and mean version of FSX with my favorite planes and scenery.

I'm running FSX off a regular 7200 RPM drive. SSD's are obviously the way to go, but apart from the initial loading time, the effect isn't that great on FSX. Maybe after the next upgrade cycle when I've taken care of the GPU and CPU... I've got about 360GB of what I consider "frequently used" data. I could maybe trim that down to 250GB, but even a 250GB SSD is still pretty expensive. The Velociraptor has got the storage capacity, but while it's significantly faster than a 7200 RPM drive, it's orders of magnitudes slower than a SSD.

Save your money and use a traditional HD. All those seconds saved add up to hardly anything and what are you going to do with those extra 5 minutes saved per year?

Save your money and use a traditional HD. All those seconds saved add up to hardly anything and what are you going to do with those extra 5 minutes saved per year?

So the bottom line is that the ONLY benefit from a faster drive is the faster initial scenery load?

Mostly, though some might report less stuttering and blurries due to faster texture loads. You will not get any FPS boost.

A couple of 7200rpm standard HDD's is all I use; I don't believe in constantly updating my hardware. I only update when I can no longer accomplish what I want on a computer.

Did I mention "really quiet"?? Not kidding BTW - it is fast, smooth, and quiet. For $100 for a 64 GB Kingston SSD, that is not that bad... and forcing yourself to keep the FSX installto under 64 GB is not such a crazy idea either..

SSD= No defragmentation, good enough + for me.

I have recently purchased a new PC (details below), and I selected a single 2TB SATA-III hard disk. Whether that was the best option or not is a debatable point, but it's worth noting that FSX now runs perfectly for me. The most detailed scenery areas that I have installed all run smoothly at MAXIMUM detail levels, and excessive texture loading stutters are not an issue for me anymore. Gigabyte Z68A-D3 motherboardIntel Core i5 2500k CPU @ 4.5GhzThermaltake Frio CPU Cooler8GB Corsair DDR3-1600 RAM1GB GeForce GTX 560Ti GPUSoundBlaster X-Fi Extreme Music2TB SATA-III hard disk700W Xigmatek NRP-PC702 PSUWindows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Windows 7 on an SSD and FSX on a dedicated 7,200 rpm SATA3 harddrive. Works really well. I could never fit my FSX installation onto an SSD that I can afford.

I use a traditional HDD. The time saved with an SSD is insignificant and not worth it, IMO.