Hello again;

 

Before I start using my SSD and while its still in the box, I was wondering something. I don't use many FSX addons other then GEX AND REX , so 128gb SSD will be enough for space. My question is putting my OS and My Fsx on that ssd will give me the same performance as just putting fsx and addons on the SSD? How would you use a 128gb SSD assuming I have enough space for sure for fsx with my SSD. I don't know if I should put OS AND FSX ON my ssd or just fsx and addons. Will it make a difference?

 

 

-- in that video you will see that his fsx textures don't lagg and autogen shows up quite fast.. hes in raid 0 though and I heard raid 0 isn't that much worth it for fsx. Will my ssd load textures like that ?

 

 

specs :

i5 3570k @4.1

geforce gtx 580 oced

16gb 1600mhz ram ddr3

650w antec psu

evo 212

p8z77 mobo

7200rpm western digital 64mb hdd

Hey Sumer,

 

I use 2 SSD's in my setup. A 60GB for Win7 & a 240GB for FSX, Add-ons and PC games. Win7 uses about 20-25GB, itself. FSX needs less than that, however add-ons fill up disk space quickly when you start collecting Scenery, Airports and Aircraft. So, a 120GB will work with both Win7 and FSX + add-ons, but space will get used up. Performance will be very good, fast startups and texture loading. Hopefully, other forum members can share their experiences to help you with your questions. Your specs are great and FSX should run smooth with fast FPS.

 

Put REX and GEX on your other hard drive, they won't benefit from the SSD performance and will take up alot of space.

 

BTW, the video doesn't show up for me.

Hey Sumer,

 

I use 2 SSD's in my setup. A 60GB for Win7 & a 240GB for FSX, Add-ons and PC games. Win7 uses about 20-25GB, itself. FSX needs less than that, however add-ons fill up disk space quickly when you start collecting Scenery, Airports and Aircraft. So, a 120GB will work with both Win7 and FSX + add-ons, but space will get used up. Performance will be very good, fast startups and texture loading. Hopefully, other forum members can share their experiences to help you with your questions. Your specs are great and FSX should run smooth with fast FPS.

 

Put REX and GEX on your other hard drive, they won't benefit from the SSD performance and will take up alot of space.

 

BTW, the video doesn't show up for me.

 

thanks for answering ,

 

so basically OS and FSX wont make any difference compared to fsx alone on a ssd? Also gex and rex wont benefit from the faster texture loading from ssd? im a noob with ssd's ( first one ever going to be used ) so thanks for the help :D

I have a 120GB Intel SSD for Windows 7 and all Windows applications, and a 240GB OCX for FSX and some of the utilities like REX and GEX, all other FS related stuff are on a slower mechanical drive.

That said, the 120GB used to be Win 7 as well as FSX but it quickly became crowded, down to 4GB free at one point. I went as far as moving all my addon airplanes, scenery, MyTrafficX, and other utility programs to a mechanical drive through the use of symbolic links - it worked but what a PITA. This ended up slowing FSX in the long run since the add-on scenery was on the slower drive. So I jumped and bought the 240GB and started over this time dedicating it to FSX.

On the RAID 0 topic, there are those who think it improves performance and there are those who don't. I don't think it buys you anything except the title of "Disk Benchmark King". Besides, you will lose the TRIM feature that keeps the SSD working efficiently when in RAID 0 mode. Bottom line - you will likely not notice the difference. RAID 0 helps with sequential data reads but not random access data, as in FSX. Translated: FSX may load faster but it won't get better frame-rates. My opinion only. My friend who is a MSCE explained it to me. RAID 0 for mechanical drives is a different story.

I tried using a 128GB SSD for FSX a while back, and it got filled up fairly quickly. Bear in mind that I don't run a ton of addons - some weather and environment packages, 20 add-on aircraft or so, and a bunch of Orbx scenery. Originally I bought a 64GB SSD for Win7 and a 128 for FSX, but I ended up getting a 256GB for FSX and using the 128 in another of my computers. You might be able to get away with 128 for FSX only (although it'd get really crowded with the OS on there too), but my guess is you'll want something bigger at some point.

 

BTW, when it came time to reinstall FSX on the new larger drive, it was a snap. I used the free Macrium Reflect software to make an image of the old FSX drive, the removed the drive and added in the larger one, making sure it was assigned the same drive letter. From there, I just expanded the old drive image onto the new drive and within minutes it was up and running, hassle-free.

I had a 120GB SSD in my laptop and had Win 7 Pro, FSX, GEX and UTX on it all at once... Total was almost 60GB (With MS Office and the entire Adobe Master suite too)

Ran perfectly fine, other than its a laptop and gave about 20FPS near the ground in the F16...

 

If your going to bundle on loads more than that, then sure, it will obviously need more space, but you can save space by disabling your windows page file too, you don't need it with an SSD drive.

 

I recently upgraded it to a 500GB SSD, and simply cloned the existing drive straight onto the new one in 15 minutes, swapped the drives over and carried on like nothing had happened, only now, with tons more free space :-)

Due to having only one SSD which had the OS on it I couldn't resist also loading FSX onto it. To be honest it worked really well and as I've now got a second SSD I've loaded FSX onto that due to space restrictions on the original drive.

 

Can I tell any difference? I can't.

 

 

Use SSD for FSX only. If I would have money I would have one SSD for OS(only), one SSD for FSX(only) and big HDD for storage.

In the past I used one SSD for Win7 and FSX. Now I have one for the OS and one for FSX. Can't say I notice a difference... The choice for two SSD's mainly had to do with space.

 

BTW You don't have to put addons like REX or GEX on the SSD unless you use those addons everytime you start FSX. I only use REX for textures and I install new textures maybe once or twice a year so I have REX on an old regular hard drive. Waste of precious SSD space! So only put on the SSD what really needs to be there.

 

And oh btw, very important, when you go for one SSD do NOT install FSX in the program files folder!!! Install it at the root (C:\FSX) or another folder but never ever in the program files folder: that is a recepy for problems.

And oh btw, very important, when you go for one SSD do NOT install FSX in the program files folder!!! Install it at the root (C:\FSX) or another folder but never ever in the program files folder: that is a recepy for problems.

Not in Windows 7 it isn't... Everything works just fine installed using the default paths... Quite a few people on here have also had no problems at all installing FSX in its default location.

Mine are also working just fine, installed in the default locations too :-)