July 30, 201213 yr I have only 20GB left on my 500GB SSd on which FSX is on. I have 30 GB left on a second SSD 250GB which contains scenery and other files which don't mind not being on the main C: Drive. I have two last gen 250GB REAL SSD's from Crucial and would like to know how to go about creating a "raid 0 " using these two drives and then transfeering FSX onto them to create not only more space but a faster Read. My PC specs are below:- Operating System MS Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 2600K @ 3.40GHz 37 °C (overclocked to 4.8GHz stable) Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology RAM 16.0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 828MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. P8P67-M PRO (LGA1155) 33 °C Graphics DELL3007WFPHC (2560x1600@60Hz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Hard Drives 238GB C300-CTFDDAC256MAG ATA Device (SSD) 477GB M4-CT512M4SSD2 ATA Device (SSD) Optical Drives Optiarc DVD RW AD-7261S ATA Device Audio Creative X-Fi Audio Processor (WDM) Never done this before so a step by step plan would benefit! Everything has been backed up by the way.
July 30, 201213 yr Moderator http://forum.avsim.net/topic/246337-to-raid-or-not-to-raid/ read this first - FSX does not improve on a RAID setup UNLESS you buy a dedicated controller - usually about $300 or more and configure the stripe properly. RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
July 30, 201213 yr Author Don't really need FSX to improve as my system runs it perfectly. Just need more room on the drive as running out of space and as FSX is Installed on the C: drive on an SSD and wanted to stay with SSD's so a Raid set up would seem an obvious choice. By the way this PC is solely dedicated to FSX.
July 30, 201213 yr hello Raid is not going to do much for you. You have 2x250gb so 500gb of SSD to play with, Raid0 is going to half that straight away so is a waste of disk space. Put FSX on one 250gb SSD and use the second for your scenery/Ai aircraft ect. Just set the paths up for your Ai in the FSX.cfg SimObjectPaths section Edit: i got that one wrong, OOps Raid1 will yield 250gb, Raid0 just slightly less than 500gb
July 30, 201213 yr All raid setups will reduce available storage. What you will gain is faster/slower reads, writes or more/less fault tolerance depending on which type you use.
July 31, 201213 yr Author I think i will abort the raid idea and just transfer as much as I can onto another ssd and add the appropiate links. Have to use pot luck and see what works and what doesn't as I know from experience some programs require to be installed on the same drive as FSX.
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