15K RPM HD

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   Hey folks! I was thinking about making this upgrade. Does anyone have any experience with a 15,000 RPM hard drive? Would this help the performance for FSX? What about cooling issues?

System:
Gateway FX6800-01E
Intel i7 920 @ 2.67 GHz
Drive 1 750Gs 7,200 RPM (Main/OS)
Drive 2 300Gs 7,200 RPM (FS 9 & FSX)
3Gs Memory
Vista Home Premium 64b SP2
750 Watt PSU

Thanks,

Dave

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15,000 rpm drives have significantly less capacity than 10,000 rpm drives, while being very expensive. And to top it off, you need a special expensive controller card to run them. Go grab a 300gb Raptor or a SSD, IMO. If I recall correctly, they will not make FSX run faster, but will decrease loading times and stutters.

[HarvesteR]

Yea I would go SSD too, no moving parts and great speed.

Cheers

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   Roger that! Many thanks for the good word.

Blue Sky Wishes,

Dave