1TB of SSD for Prepar3D

[Josephpilot 0]

Hi guys, 1 TB of SSD, is good for all Prepar3D directory, scenery and planes?

[yellowjack 28]

Hi, I have both P3dv4 & P3dv5 and they are on two 512GB SSDs (1 for v4 & 1 for V5) and they include a  small partition for downloads on each SSD. 

Edited January 3, 2021 by yellowjack
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[W2DR 1,866]

Yes. No problem at all. A full Prepar3D install (with no add-ons) uses less than 50GB of disc space.

[GSalden 4,718]

Here Windows + P3D + scenery on a 2 Tb M2 and extra scenery on a 512 Gb SSD 600.

[mpo910 2,114]

I have round about 1 tb filled with tons of add-ons and also 3 huge TE products. 

So 1 TB should be enough to start with

[331BK 96]

also have a 1 Tb m2 SSD but in my case I only have 50 GB left so I will change to a 2 Tb SSD very soon.

I already have addons like pro atc...  which don't need high performance on another sata sad.

[GSalden 4,718]

2 minutes ago, 331BK said:

also have a 1 Tb m2 SSD but in my case I only have 50 GB left so I will change to a 2 Tb SSD very soon.

I already have addons like pro atc...  which don't need high performance on another sata sad.

Always leave at least 20% free. Below that performance (speed) is reducing rapidly.

[331BK 96]

yes, that's allready the space left after overprivisioning 

 

lot's of ORBX  TE products installed 😂

Edited January 3, 2021 by 331BK

[Josephpilot 0]

oh ok thank you

[Rogen 1,102]

Back in the day I remember calculating if all my software would fit on a 20 MB harddrive, it wouldn't but anything over 20 MB was prohibitively expensive.

These days I have a 1 TB M.2 NVMe reading up to 3500 MB per second, an amazingly fast drive.

But it's not enough!

I've already filled it with P3D add-ons and scenery and need more space, to which I've purchased a 4 TB SSD drive to move the lesser used scenery onto. I did consider an 8 TB SSD drive but then would have also had to purchase a couple of 8 TB spinning disk drives to back it all up.

The moral is, no drive is ever fast enough or large enough !

Cheers R

Edited January 4, 2021 by Rogen

[W2DR 1,866]

Speaking of storage. Anybody remember the original IBM PC from 1981? Floppy drives and and cassettes. The first standard internal HDD came in 1983 when the XT was introduced. I was the "buying-guy" for these where I worked and my boss almost choked at the $2300+ price tag. There were two options for the HDD back then. The 5GB drive came standard and for the low, low price of only $200 you could get a 10GB drive "installed". The physical difference the two drives? None. Nana. Zilch. For the extra $200 the folks at IBM would set a switch in the OS that opened up the other 5GB. It didn't take my guys long to figure out how to do that so we never bought the "10GB option". 

[MDFlier 2,031]

22 hours ago, Josephpilot said:

Hi guys, 1 TB of SSD, is good for all Prepar3D directory, scenery and planes?

I don't have any TrueEarth products, but my entire P3Dv5 installation including all of the installers for everything is 281Gb. 1TB should be fine - to start with. 😁

4 minutes ago, W2DR said:

Speaking of storage. Anybody remember the original IBM PC from 1981? Floppy drives and and cassettes. The first standard internal HDD came in 1983 when the XT was introduced. I was the "buying-guy" for these where I worked and my boss almost choked at the $2300+ price tag. There were two options for the HDD back then. The 5GB drive came standard and for the low, low price of only $200 you could get a 10GB drive "installed". The physical difference the two drives? None. Nana. Zilch. For the extra $200 the folks at IBM would set a switch in the OS that opened up the other 5GB. It didn't take my guys long to figure out how to do that so we never bought the "10GB option". 

Ugh... I remember saving and reloading programs off of a regular cassette tape recorder on the original TRS-80s. That was before floppy drives came to PCs. It was horrible fiddling with the volume control on the tape drive until you got it to the proper volume level where the computer could load the program. Took several tries at 1/2 hour each time just to load up the copy of Space Invaders that you spent several hours hand typing into the computer from a book on basic programming that Radio Shack sold.

Don't get me started on punch cards. Or days on end realigning the 9 track reel to reel tape drives so that they could read tapes written on other tape drives. They were NOT the good old days. Lol.

[W2DR 1,866]

10 minutes ago, MDFlier said:

Don't get me started on punch cards. Or days on end realigning the 9 track reel to reel tape drives so that they could read tapes written on other tape drives. They were NOT the good old days. Lol.

Sure they were. If you'd ever "programed stuff" by wiring boards on a 1620 I think you'd agree  😄. 

[Bert Pieke 7,594]

46 minutes ago, W2DR said:

There were two options for the HDD back then. The 5GB drive came standard and for the low, low price of only $200 you could get a 10GB drive "installed".

You are dating yourself... those were 5MB and 10MB drives 🙂

 

Edited January 4, 2021 by Bert Pieke

[W2DR 1,866]

How right you are Bert. God, where does time and my memory go. One thing for sure though, the standard RAM was increased to 128KB...............