What do you think of using the OCZ Revodrive PCIe SSD in comparison to SATA3 SSD? Please do NOT discuss price tag, only performance review/comparison, also HDD is not an option.

 

Reading the numerous pages here and all over the internet there are some simmers that use the fast PCIe SSDs for their FSX setup. Can you share the experience with us that are in a process of selecting the optimum SSD combination?

 

I plan to have:

OCZ Revodrive 3 X2 [240GB] for a Win7+FSX+737NGX and Xplane10 and priority sceneries (FRA, AMS, ZRH, MUC, VIE) and

all other less important scenery on SATA3 SSD Intel 520/Samsung [120 or 240GB].

 

PC will be: i7 3930k water-clocked, 670GTX, 16GB 2133 RAM, 850W, Asus P9X79 PRO, Obsidian 800D.

 

Thanks for sharing your PCIe SSD experience.

I have SATAIII SSD experience but no PCI SSD experience. Although, from what I have gathered, the PCI SSDs are extremely fast. As long as you are willing to shell out the cash, then go for it! :smile:

And extremely expensive. Insanely expensive. Stupidly expensive.

Yes they are expensive, this is what I have for FSX....

 

Newegg as a good deal on them now, $200.00 off the original price....lol

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227722

 

Newegg as a good deal on them now, $200.00 off the original price....lol

 

LOL... almost what I just paid for an ivy bridge upgrade (cpu / mb / mem).

 

I almost bought one of those Alain (you having posted about them before)... but was trying to spend relatively the least amount possible (settled on a pair on samsung 830s).

Yes they are expensive, this is what I have for FSX....

 

Newegg as a good deal on them now, $200.00 off the original price....lol

 

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820227722

 

 

 

That is insane. Is it necessary? How fast does FSX boot? How big is your setup? How many aircraft you have installed? I mean, I can keep clean FSX and boot inside a minute. Does this thing guarantee open FSX inside of 10 seconds even when installation is 200GB big?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227740

That is insane. Is it necessary?

 

LOL, not it's not necessary..

 

How fast does FSX boot?

 

As soon as I click on the FSX logo on my desktop FSX open without any delay.

 

How big is your setup? How many aircraft you have installed? I mean, I can keep clean FSX and boot inside a minute. Does this thing guarantee open FSX inside of 10 seconds even when installation is 200GB big?

 

If you have a lot of photoreal scenery you'll need more storage, I'm aiming at using photoreal only combine with autogene like Miami X 2012, to me that's the most realistic combination as far as FSX scenery. I'm not into buying airport at $35.00 anymore to fly in and out of them one or two times just because I can say I have everything they make, I'm trying to fly local.

 

As far as booting I have my LOD set at 9.4 and I boot well inside 30 sec., now is a saving of 30 sec. worth $1,000.00.....naaaaaaa but I can tell you that I've been seing less blurries, again, is less blurries and booting inside 30 sec. with LOD at 9.4 (tried 11.5 and I ran out of memory...lol) with Captain Sim 727 over Miami X 2012 worth $1,000.00 more....up to you to decide...... bragging rights......priceless.... :P

Alain,

 

You are right about one thing - bragging rights :lol:

 

Definitely not worth 1000bucks, whatever you are doing. I mean, those uber-short load times are definitely attractive!

 

Tell you one thing: if I had 1000bucks to spend as I well wish, I would get that piece of... beauty

As I wrote in the very beginning but people do not seem to care...

Please do NOT discuss price tag, only performance review/comparison, also HDD is not an option.

 

There are some simmers out there who do not care for the price, only performance. Simply accept it and do NOT trash the topic with useless comments. Thanks. So please stick to the performance review, if anyone.

 

Anyhow I got all the mentioned PC components and next week I will build it and start installing software.

I have 1x SATA3 SSD Intel 520 128GB and 1x PCIe OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB.

 

Now I do not know where to put Win7 and where FSX?

Options:

(1) SSD: Win7 and Revodrive: FSX

(2) Revodrive: Win7 and SSD: FSX

(3) Revodrive: Win7 and FSX and PMDG and only lower priority scenery on SSD

 

Suggestions?

They're really not that much faster where it matters most - low queue depth & small random access (in some cases even slower), and no TRIM support, so for desktop purposes / general gaming / a nice SATA III sync or toggle NAND offers more capacity, no degradation so I would not bother with Revos

 

Those drives are great for servers with tons of concurrent I/O operations, It's just a bunch of RAIDed SSD's after all, but for the kind of workload you get with FSX, it's a massive waste (of both resources and money) .

 

My el cheapo Crucial M4 scores pretty much the same in AS-SSD as that revo

 

this is not mine, but is a typical M4 score in AS-SSD (it's just easier to google one) and this is not even the fastest SSD out there

 

FSX on the revo drive... that's the whole point of getting the revo drive.

 

Win7 on the ssd.

Andrej had posted some questions regarding my experience with the RevoDrive 3:

 

I have some questions regarding the use of the Revodrive.

Now as I got a PC to my home, I need to set it up. I have these storage devices:

-SSD SATA3 Intel 520 128GB

-PCIe SSD OCZ Revodrive 3 240GB

-HDD WD Caviar Blue 1TB (photos, music)

 

Regarding to your experience, shall I put:

a) Win7 on SSD Intel and FSX on Revodrive

or

B) Win7 on Revodrive, FSX on SSD

c) both Win7 and FSX on Revodrive, non essential scenery on SSD

 

From my own personal experience the PCIe SSD RevoDrive delivers the best performance and my own personal recommendation would be to setup Windows 7 and FSX on the RevoDrive in a C: only structure, i.e. don't partition or split-up the 240 GB. I realise that with the "never fill an SSD drive up beyond 80%" mantra by manufacturers, and depending on the number of add-ons installed, this may not always be feasible. This is why I have the 480 GB version RevoDrive 3, as it allows me to pretty much run everything directly off the SSD. I guess one possible solution for using both SSDs would be to create a symbolic link from the PCIe SSD to a folder on the SATA3 SSD drive using the mklink DOS command.

 

Cheers,

 

Jerome

I run both Win7 and Fsx on my Revo, but be warned the size limitations. Win7 seems to grow and FSX can grow quite huge. I hover around 9GB free.

What do you think of using the OCZ Revodrive PCIe SSD in comparison to SATA3 SSD?

 

It may have adverse side effect when used in computer built for gaming purposes. Unless you have X79 mobo (or X58), it is eating half of maximum bandwidth available for your graphics card. JeppPad, I noticed info about Asus P9X79 PRO, it is warning for users of LGA1155.