June 5, 20232 yr On 6/4/2023 at 12:31 PM, Dillon said: I broke down and purchased a 2TB SSD drive for FS after my 1TB drive was filling up. Before the change I noticed stuttering performance at some ad-on airports and the ATL area in general. Upon copying over my data to the new SSD drive those issues are gone. Taking care of the load times from a legacy drive really made a difference in MSFS performance. 😏🍺 At this point I'd recommend anyone using a legacy drive with MSFS seriously consider an SSD drive. Oh my goodness you were using a spinny drive? I'm happy for you now hehe. What sort of load times were you getting with the old drive? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
June 5, 20232 yr Author 23 minutes ago, ryanbatc said: Oh my goodness you were using a spinny drive? I'm happy for you now hehe. What sort of load times were you getting with the old drive? I don't have the numbers but as the drive got filled up load times were horrendous with third party major airports. Totally different sim now. FS2020 Alienware Aurora R11 10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700F - Windows 11 Home 32GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super OC 16GB - Pimax Crystal Light VR
June 5, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, Fielder said: If anyone is upgrading drives, and you only are going to have one drive, then a 2TB drive is a much better purchase choice than a 1TB drive. And the prices on drives are much cheaper than 2 years ago. With all the updates from MSFS, my MSFS is over 800 GB (official + community). I have 356 GB , MSFS including community. I uninstalled all the aircraft, lessons, blah blah, that I never use, which saves a great deal of space.
June 6, 20232 yr Just be aware that with any SSD, if you use more than 80 to 90% of the capacity they slow down an awful lot. That last 20% or so should be reserved for occasional temporary storage when moving stuff about. Think of it as like the reserve fuel on an aircraft, it is space that is not intended for regular day to day use,
June 6, 20232 yr 12 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said: Just be aware that with any SSD, if you use more than 80 to 90% of the capacity they slow down an awful lot. That last 20% or so should be reserved for occasional temporary storage when moving stuff about. Think of it as like the reserve fuel on an aircraft, it is space that is not intended for regular day to day use, If you go past ~90%, writes to the SSD will slow down...read speeds are largely unaffected. So if the device is used for "write once read many times" (e.g. scenery/aircraft add-ons) you can fill it up, but putting something like the rolling cache on a full drive would be a problem. SSD storage is getting so cheap now that it's a crime to fill one up, anyway. I saw a 2TB Samsung 980 PCIe4 NVME drive on sale at Newegg for $134 the other day. 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
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