ranger-buck 5 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 hello to all, ok my hard drive shows 70% still some what ok but have to replace it I did a image back up, computer win7 has i7 operation I know win 7 not supported . all that said, those that change to solid state was it a good thing or not? I have fsx with lots of Orbx no plans to change due to my old age lol, pro in cons ? thanks in advance ...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jack the Swede in Spain 424 Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 An SSD makes NO difference when it comes to flying. Initial loading time is a little bit quicker but performans/fps/somoothnes is not different from a "normal" HD. IMHO a n SSD for a sim is a waste of money. I have one for my OS but everything else is on a HD. Jack 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bvdboomen 1,466 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Jack, are you sure about this? I always thought that an SSD helps with faster loading scenery which results in less blurry ground textures, especially with fast jets. Correct me if I'm wrong. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SGunard 108 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 I don't know if Jack is right about not helping the sim itself go faster, but for me it made the load time for flights much, MUCH faster. On HDD I could prepare a meal, eat it, wash up and enjoy a cup of tea afterwards in the time it took to load a flight. Now I only have time to make the cuppa! And if you use an SSD for your boot drive, Windows will load much faster to. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doc44kin 12 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Hi Jack, I too have been wondering if it would be worthwhile to go to SSDs but the size of the job is a bit daunting and my system works fine on two 1tb drives,a GTX1070,water cooled cpu etc,so I have just enjoyed what I have,Doc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jack the Swede in Spain 424 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) https://www.digitalcitizen.life/ssd-vs-hdd-higher-frame-rates-games My own test is NOT sientific but I have used both type of discs and found NO difference in performans/fps/somoothnes. Jack Edited July 14, 2020 by Jack the Swede in Spain 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Cooper 6,940 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 15 hours ago, bvdboomen said: Jack, are you sure about this? I always thought that an SSD helps with faster loading scenery which results in less blurry ground textures, especially with fast jets. Correct me if I'm wrong. Hello, as far as I am aware, the inability to display scenery is not due to the transfer of data from the disk but the inability of the simulator to process it. Good evidence to support this would be the virtual impossibility to blur scenery for more than a few moments in P3D v4.5.13.32097, even after slewing at thousands of virtual knots, versus the ease with which blurred scenery can be achieved at normal flying speed in earlier versions and FSX. It is worth bearing in mind that someone who has just spent several hundred of their currency on a large SSD rarely visits a forum to state how little difference it made to the performance. As Jack mentions, the difference in initial loading times is not in dispute and very well documented. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doc44kin 12 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Great info,thanks to all who commented,I will go on enjoying FSX and all the great software from Orbx without worrying about a few extra fps,better fuel up,Doc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ranger-buck 5 Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 ok thanks to everyone great comments, as my 13 yr old hard drive is ready to burn out, time to change am not to concern with in the simulator flying, but I like the be able to down load programs a little faster, so ok with that...I also did research and agree with jack. again every one that posted thanks....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W2DR 590 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Just one more comment.............. This is some info I posted in an earlier thread. The only thing I'd add is to say that all of the external drives were mounted in a USB3 docking station. All mileage is, of course, variable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's my admittedly-unscientific look at FSX load times with varying drive configurations. These times are the average of three executions of FSX for each scenario. I see no reason why the results for P3D wouldn't trend the same.The only add-on is a complete set of Orbx scenery. I saw NO difference in in-game performance no matter which drive was being used. My bottom-line? You can run FSX/P3D from any drive you chose and the only penalty is going to be the initial load time. But, you may already know that......... Internal SSD Reference External SSD + 54 seconds Internal HDD - 7200 RPM +112 seconds External HDD - 10000 RPM +157 seconds External HDD - 7200 RPM +201 seconds External HDD - 5400 RPM +236 seconds 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bvdboomen 1,466 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Thanks for the comment Nick. Makes sense. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dr_Watson 47 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Switched from many Sata drives a year or 2 ago to SSD, and was no problem at all. No imaging or ghosting involved for games drives. I just bought a 1000GB SSD, copy pasted everything onto it, gave it the same drive letter as the old drive and that was it, done it like that a few times for game drives. Drive c with Windows was a bit more effort and I used a free ghosting software but for games only drives it was very simple. My C drive has always been windows only. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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