August 9, 20178 yr In the past I showed that moving to my 1tb evo 850 Samsung resulted in about 3 min less in load time for a massive install I'm wondering what the load times might look like decrease wise going from this to raid0? I'd assume there would be some benefit from the raid0 performance. I guess it may depend on whether onboard or dedicated card. There is also this vs maybe buying 4 regular hard drives and comparing. I'd like to increase capacity but lower the load times even more with p3dv4 Any experiences. Thanks in advance. Asus Strix z790-e; 1000 watt evga SuperNova Plat; 14900k AC_LL 0.55 adp -0.050 253/253/355 CEPoff (CB-1pass 39200 80c, msfs peak 92,avg 60-78c, astrorender 95c,room76F); 64GB(dual 32) cl32 6400 at 6400 xmpII F5-6400J3239G32GX2-TZ5RK, Asus Ryuo III 360mm; Thermaltake v51 Case; Gigabyte 4090 OC; VR-Crystal; Dofreality H6; Astrosite
August 9, 20178 yr Just get a pci ssd If you are doing standard HDDs with Raid 0 - SSD will be still faster as failure rate does go up with Raid 0. Now SSD with Raid 0 is something even I want to try How I Evaluate Third Party Sim Addon Developers Refined P3Dv5.0 HF2 Settings Part1 (has MaddogX) and older thread Part 2 (has PMDG 747)
August 9, 20178 yr Moderator IIRC, way back when NickN posted some results relating to FSX and RAID arrays. I don't have the link but bottom line, as far as FSX goes ( and I assume P3D) there is no performance benefit in using RAID array. The types of read/writes that FSX/P3D does aren't helped by RAID. As far as loading time, I can't see where RAID would make any difference at all in FSX/P3D. Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
August 9, 20178 yr 8 minutes ago, vgbaron said: IIRC, way back when NickN posted some results relating to FSX and RAID arrays. I don't have the link but bottom line, as far as FSX goes ( and I assume P3D) there is no performance benefit in using RAID array. The types of read/writes that FSX/P3D does aren't helped by RAID. As far as loading time, I can't see where RAID would make any difference at all in FSX/P3D. Vic I can confirm this as well. Zero benefit to Raid 0 for flightsim. SSD much better. Ilya Ilya Eydis, PPL, ASEL
August 9, 20178 yr I had P3D on a NVMe SSD (2.1 Gigabayte / second reading) and have it now on a normal SSD. Result: no difference in loading times.
August 9, 20178 yr Although I can not try to answer the OP's question directly I can say that, generally speaking the faster the drive by RAID, the marginally faster the initial load, but also the greater the problems, the lesser the stability and the (at best) equality of application performance. In other words, from my own testing and experience using RAID to enhance FS performance, it doesn't, or at least it didn't for me, so IMHO, don't... Kind regards,
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