Seagate 20TB HD drives in 2020

[MartinRex007 390]

As AnandTech reports, Seagate has confirmed it plans to ship an 18TB hard drive in the first half of 2020 followed by a 20TB drive in the second half of the year. 

Might be a good option for MSFS 2020 if you want to cache large scenery areas, if the cost isn't prohibitive? 

Cheers

Martin

[Bert Pieke 7,584]

I am not sure we know how well MSFS deals with large caches..  what might the performance impact be??

I have a 100 GB cache assigned, but have no idea if that is actually a good thing.. 😉

[Adrian123 1,015]

5 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

I have a 100 GB cache assigned, but have no idea if that is actually a good thing

I heard 64 gb gives the best performance. Not sure how accurate that I heard is. Been using it with no problems.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Adrian123

[captain420 3,099]

large cache makes msfs unresponsive. I've tried a 512GB cache file on my SSD and I can barely click on and navigate the menus.

[HiFlyer 9,358]

18 minutes ago, captain420 said:

large cache makes msfs unresponsive. I've tried a 512GB cache file on my SSD and I can barely click on and navigate the menus.

I have an (experimental) 300GB cache on an SSD with no issues at all

[Victoroos 205]

Won't HDD slow it down more (depending on your ISP speed?)

[captain420 3,099]

23 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

I have an (experimental) 300GB cache on an SSD with no issues at all

Well for me, the problem slowly creeps in when you start creating a lot of regions. Especially when you choose the high quality. I created around 5 regions of all the highest quality and performance slowed down to a crawl that I couldn't even click on anything.

[HiFlyer 9,358]

1 hour ago, captain420 said:

Well for me, the problem slowly creeps in when you start creating a lot of regions. Especially when you choose the high quality. I created around 5 regions of all the highest quality and performance slowed down to a crawl that I couldn't even click on anything.

Okay, I see what you mean. Youre talking about manual caching where I was talking about automatic.