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Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:10 pm**

Ok, I'm building a new system:

The OS will be on a standard WD 7200RPM 32MB buffer drive, for FSX, I'm looking at this as an option. http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?SAM-SSD64M. I could do two of these in raid0.

Would this be ok for FSX? Hardware raid, is there much of an overhead on the processor for that?

My other options are:

Single 150GB Raptor
A SAS system (double the price of the raptor!) :-X

Any views/guidance?

Ric B.

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:42 pm**

1. SSD has issues unless its the new Intel SSD drives and even then they need 6Gb/s SATAIII ports for full operation in multidisk systems... be another year

unles you are like me and have military spec/grade SSD drives used in high level aircraft computer design/security at your disposal

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:41 pm**

Cheers for the input Nick,

So, with SSD out of the picture I'm left with an interesting choice.

I'm very lucky that I might be able to get a 300GB 15.5k SAS drive for free, all I would need to buy would be the interface card.

So my two choices are:

2 x 7200rpm 16mb buffer sata HDD in a raid 0 array (for the OS)
1x 15500rpm 16mb buffer SAS HDD with controller (for FSX)

This will cost between

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:35 pm**

Great chart Nick.

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:59 pm**

NO RAID unless its true full hardware PCIe card RAID

I would go with the 7200 single for the OS and a Vrap for FSX

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:13 pm**

NO RAID unless its true full hardware PCIe card RAID

I would go with the 7200 single for the OS and a Vrap for FSX

Cheers Nick. This is now the plan.

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