FSX

[Gbergh]

I would like to purchase a Solid State Drive for FSX.

[NickN]

If this is not the new Intel SSD, its not worth it

and, you can only have 1 SSD drive on the entire 3GB/s motherboard plug system

you -can- have a PCIe SATAII controller card run more than 1 SSD drive but you can not have a SSD and another HDD on the 3GB/s SATAII controller or they both suffer which means you lose speed on both drives

If you only have a SATAI plug on the motherboard, forget SSD as it would be a complete waste of money


A single SSD drive saturates the 3GB/s bandwidth and they are upgrading the standard to SATAIII soon for 6Gb/s for SSD

The cost per gig is rediculous for SSD

FSX with addons.. and if you installl mesh, airports, texture upgrades scenery like UTX.. aircraft you can easily go 150GB over time


So until SSD comes down to a reasonable price per gig, the motherboards have 6Gb/s controllers on them I suggest you put 300 bucks into a VelociRaptor for FSX...

best money you can spend

If you are going to buy SSD.. wait till the new Intel drives are released and on the market. They resolve several issues the platform suffers from

[Gbergh]

Many Thanks for your prompt reply.

[NickN]

The Vrap you have right now on the SATAII motherboard port is all you need for FSX.


As for space requirements it depends on your addons

The default install of FSX is less than 20GB but you add in mesh and other products you can easily hit 50-75GB

add in a large AI traffic package and that can go to over 100.. user flyable aircraft, more

I would always estimate at least 100-150GB just to be safe but there are people out there with addons which add up to over that which along with the speed of the drive is why the 300GB Vrap is the best choice for FSX

[Gbergh]

Nick, many thanks.. The new VRaptor with only FSX on it works GREAT!

[NickN]

Yea.. you really cant beat the cost of those Vrap drives for the performance you get and the disk space

Just one of those drives on the right SATAII port will run  equal to 2 1gen Raptors in RAID and faster than many other drives in RAID configuration


Its going to be at least a year before SSD is really worth the investment...