November 10, 201411 yr Commercial Member SSD... eliminates all of this silliness. Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 10, 201411 yr Commercial Member SSD... eliminates all of this silliness. Well - I don't think so. Direct memory access is still quite a bit faster than SATA, SAS, PCie, whatever. LORBY-SI
November 10, 201411 yr Commercial Member Well - I don't think so. Direct memory access is still quite a bit faster than SATA, SAS, PCie, whatever. Not fast enough for you to tell the difference for what's being desired (faster file load times). Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 10, 201411 yr Commercial Member Well, yes, probably. Still. While being faster it (the ramdisk) is a rather cheap way to improve things a little. A SSD will set me back 20 times the amount I paid for the ramdisk, as I would need a full replacement for the core sim drive. Scenery drive is out of the question, for that I would need yet another SSD. Sometime in the future I will, just not now. Thanks for calling me/us silly, by the way. LORBY-SI
November 10, 201411 yr Commercial Member I run Prepar3D on a single SSD, with scenery. It wasn't a $200 drive (12GB dataram ramdisk license @ $10 * 200 = $200). While I called using a ramdisk silliness... I didn't call you anything. Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 10, 201411 yr SSD... eliminates all of this silliness. You beat me to it. I've been running everything on 1 250 and 1 TB Samsung SSD for quite a while now. Only run photoscenery with an occasional ORBX airport on top. Do not and have never had a problem with load times, blurriness, etc. Runs perfect.
November 11, 201411 yr Commercial Member I have been thinking about SSDs a lot. I would need three of the 1 TB kind to cover all bases (FSX, P3D and the shared scenery drive). Where I live a 1 TB SSD costs 500 USD. I will take the plunge one day. Just not now. LORBY-SI
November 11, 201411 yr I run FSX from a SATA III 1TB Samsung 840EVO SSD, and I also dedicate 8GB of my 16GB system RAM to Primocache to cache the SSD. The difference in load times between the first load (when reading off the SSD and caching FSX data for the first time), and subsequent loads is pretty dramatic. DMA access to fast dual-channel RAM is several orders of magnitude faster than accessing an MLC flash array and then transporting the data over a PCIe bus designed for physical media and shared with the video card and other hardware. When doing programming/development work, it's not uncommon to have to start and stop FSX repeatedly as part of the testing process, and anyone suggesting the differences are imperceptible or the undertaking is silly has either never tried it or has been doing it all wrong. Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
November 11, 201411 yr Commercial Member Thank you, Bob. I really started to second guess myself, but you saved me :-) LORBY-SI
November 11, 201411 yr I use 2 Samsung SSD's. I for OS, 1 for P3D. This is a new build with pretty much nothing else on it. Whilst faster than loading off 3 spindles it is still not as fast as what I had hoped. Particularly as I do stop and start frequently. This could be because of background scenario setups as mentioned in this thread... I am going to investigate the use of a RAMDrIve
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