I have MSFS2024 installed on my dedicated sim SSD, a Samsung Evo SATA drive with 4TB capacity. Currently, I also configured the sim as such that the rolling cache is on the same drive. Now I thought that it might be wise to put the rolling cache on my m.2 SSD (the C:\ drive) instead? I could easily spare e.g. 64GB for a rolling cache, enough space available. Would this result in any benefit because the m.2 SSD is faster than the SATA SSD? Or would this be waste of time and energy? 😉

 

Honestly, I doubt you'd see any difference. There's simply not enough reading / writing off the disk going on for a speed bottleneck to ever be an issue, even on SATA. Looking at my terrain download data since the beginning of the month, that's 5 days worth of flying, 20 some hours and I'm at 873.9MB in data consumption, according to the in-sim counter (granted, at this point I might have build up cache as well) Plus a bit of miscellaneous reading and writing while you fly, that's a tiny amount of data for the SSD to process. You could be downloading that an hour and it still wouldn't be a problem. 

An NVME drive is substantially faster than an SSD. On average to the order of about 6 times SSD transfer speeds. 

This also depends on the quality and branding of the aforementioned devices.

However an SSD is also substantially faster than the average network connection to your ISP. Even faster than a gigabit connection.

If your network can keep up with the streaming demands of MSFS 2024, then your SSD should have no problem. So the short answer is, you are fine.

You may see faster loading times with app and games that rely on local storage with NVME, however since this sim relies heavily on streaming it's assets from the Azure cloud, this makes no difference.

Edited December 5, 20241 yr by vyper883