October 14, 20232 yr I've currently got MSFS on an internal nvme which also has my OS, and the community folder on an HDD. Would I notice the difference in anything other than load times if I put everything on an external SSD? There are a few like the Crucial X9Pro that are on the Prime sale finishing today. i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
October 14, 20232 yr The Crucial X9 Pro is USB 3.2 so read speeds are usually ~1000 MB/s (technically USB 3.2 can reach 10 GB/s but drives rarely get near this). In contrast your NVMe drive should be in the range of 1500-3000 MB/s depending on associated hardware (and how old it is). An external drive is therefore likely to slow loading times rather than increase them. If you want to buy the X9 Pro, use it to store photos or music and free up space on your C: drive. Edited October 14, 20232 yr by Gabshall
October 14, 20232 yr Author 9 minutes ago, Gabshall said: An external drive is therefore likely to slow loading times rather than increase them. Cheers, you’ve saved me a few yen! i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
October 14, 20232 yr my Samsung sequential benchmarks: 980 PRO 2 TB: 6.936 MB/s NVMe (12 x faster than sata SSD) 860 EVO 4TB: 562 MB/s sata SSD ----------------------------- even 500 MB/s via sata is more than sufficient for MSFS. no fps difference in actual game play, whatsoever. Edited October 14, 20232 yr by turbomax AMD 7800X3D, Windows 11, Gigabyte X670 AORUS Elite AX Motherboard, 64GB DDR5 G.SKILL Trident Z5 NEO RGB (AMD Expo), RTX 4090, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 2 TB PCIe 4.0, Samsung 980 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB PCIe 4.0, 4K resolution 50" TV @60Hz, VR: Pimax Crystal Light + HP Reverb G2 @ 90 Hz, Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant, be quiet 1000W PSU, Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black air cooler. 60-130 fps. no CPU overclocking. very nice.
October 14, 20232 yr 13 minutes ago, turbomax said: even 500 MB/s via sata is more than sufficient for MSFS. no fps difference in actual game play, whatsoever. Drive speed generally won't affect fps (provided you're not on a platter), it's the load times when the app first runs and subsequent loading for each flight that are potentially affected.
October 14, 20232 yr There are external NVME about which on a USB 3.2 or Firewire bus are pretty fast, but my experience with them is they tend to overheat on sustained writes, generally the cases are not up to dissipating the heat. Though for MSFS use you are unlikely to strike issues. Just be aware some (most?) external NVME can be problematic if you are using them to do stuff like back up an entire hard disk.
October 15, 20232 yr Author Cheers for the comments, all, think I’ll give it a pass. Anyway, 2024 should mitigate things and I’ll probably do a new PC build not long after that comes out, so… i910900k, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4 RAM, AW3423DW, Ruddy girt big mug of Yorkshire Tea
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