Hi simmers,  

 

My Raptor HDD has only about 200Gig capacity. So I'm upgrading to SSD 500Gig.  I've got to many add ons, etc.  I would like to know from someone that has done this upgrade to  his rig the pros and maybe cons. Obviously it has to make the speed (Iop's) faster and so on. Is it noticeable? Does it make FSX faster? Is it worth it?  An overall opinion. 

 

Thanks a million in advance.

 

jcpg(john)

This is my current setup:

 

C: Drive - 120 GB SSD Windows 7 (Samsung EVO)

D: Drive - 500 GB SSD FSX and all addons (Samsung EVO)

E: Drive - 1TB SATA HDD for storage purposes only

 

This works very well for me. SSD Drives are cheap enough so I got two of them, using the smaller one for Windows and the larger one for FSX

 

Pros

 

Windows loads and runs much faster. FSX does have a noticeable improvement when loading but not too major, no impact on increasing FPS, however the biggest performance gain for FSX is installing FSX and all addons as the process is much faster, also you don't have to defrag anymore. I have cut down reinstalling time to under half the time now.

 

Other gain is when reconfiguring things like REX or Ultimate Traffic 2 that in the past took considerable time to backuo or load new textures or schedules, this process is significantly faster so you can make those changes more often as the wait times are much lower.

 

Restarting Windows is much faster when you need to, sometimes I restart Windows between flights to clear memory and restart Processes to try and reduce OOM's. 

 

Cons

 

I can't think of any other then if a drive crashed that would be a pain but SSD's are more reliable then people make them out to be, The Samsung EVO's that I use have a good reputation and I have never had a problem with them. Been using SSD's for a few years now without issue.

 

 

Overall I am happy and can't think of a better solution that is out there for the performance and price

Ok Matthew,  now I can go ahead and replace it knowing all the details.

 

Much appreciated. 

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