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CBris said:
Also - anyone - what's better... Terabyte drives and bigger...? Or smaller ones in RAID or even bigger ones in RAID? My FSX is now almost 170 GB - plus a few sceneries on another drive. will 7200 rpm SATA drives still be good, or are there faster, more reliable and better cached drives?
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For me, an external (or internal / seperate) 1TB is the way to go, putting all FS things in the seperated drive. This way, your OS runs on one HD, and your sim runs on the other, and that does improve speed.

Maintenance on a 1TB (running defrag) can be time consuming, but I think its done less on a seperate drive outside of the OS drive (C: drive).

But, thats my own findings. I am not a computer guru like Insidios.




Bill
 
CBris said:
Oh yes - I advertise here too - oops! Even if it is for freebie repaints off my humble website.

Kelly - now if you delivered at those proces ex-works free delivery in Germany, then I could sort of be tempted (hahaha)

But seriously - is there any sign of the Intel 975's becoming any cheaper? I am indeed toying with the idea to rebuild my box. Or rather convert it to a server and build a new one.

Also - anyone - what's better... Terabyte drives and bigger...? Or smaller ones in RAID or even bigger ones in RAID? My FSX is now almost 170 GB - plus a few sceneries on another drive. will 7200 rpm SATA drives still be good, or are there faster, more reliable and better cached drives?

FSX sceneries are such hogs - I can't buy the OrbX terrains simply because I am out of drive space...
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Actually, raid diminishes performance with FSX. You're better off with single drives, and even though the Velociraptors are the 10k drives, there is a faster drive out there, I think it's the WD 850GB or something. In benchmarks, the performance was faster than the Raptors'. But as it stands you may be better off with say a velociraptor as your primary disc and a 1 or 2TB as your storage/fs disc.

And as far as the pricing for the 975 goes, I honestly don't see that dropping until the i9 processors hit the market, and even then, the price drop won't be that beneficial. You're better off with the i7 920 because the QPI handling on that cpu is fantastic. You will thinnk that you had a 975. I swear!

And shipping, if you were in the US we would offer free shipping, but, unfortunately, we can't ship worldwide for free. Sorry.
 
Nsidious9 said:
Actually, raid diminishes performance with FSX. You're better off with single drives, and even though the Velociraptors are the 10k drives, there is a faster drive out there, I think it's the WD 850GB or something. In benchmarks, the performance was faster than the Raptors'. But as it stands you may be better off with say a velociraptor as your primary disc and a 1 or 2TB as your storage/fs disc.
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Actually this statement applies only if you are using a motherboard RAID controller. If you use a separate RAID card the speeds are much faster and there is benefit from RAID 0 up to RAID 5. You are correct that the 10,000 rpm drives are not as fast in read time as some of the newer 32mg cache Black Edition hard drives.
Ted
 
txnetcop said:
Actually this statement applies only if you are using a motherboard RAID controller. If you use a separate RAID card the speeds are much faster and there is benefit from RAID 0 up to RAID 5. You are correct that the 10,000 rpm drives are not as fast in read time as some of the newer 32mg cache Black Edition hard drives.
Ted
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Right sir, I agree. But you have to understand that the average user can't afford a standalone raid controller card. Hell, I can't. But I will say that you are right about that. But for the average/general user, people use a onboard controller. SO I guess you can say I was generally speaking.
In the future, I will try not to do so, as I see there are more technically savvy people here that need specifics and not general statements. I do apologize.
 
CBris said:
Oh yes - I advertise here too - oops! Even if it is for freebie repaints off my humble website.

Kelly - now if you delivered at those proces ex-works free delivery in Germany, then I could sort of be tempted (hahaha)

But seriously - is there any sign of the Intel 975's becoming any cheaper? I am indeed toying with the idea to rebuild my box. Or rather convert it to a server and build a new one.

Also - anyone - what's better... Terabyte drives and bigger...? Or smaller ones in RAID or even bigger ones in RAID? My FSX is now almost 170 GB - plus a few sceneries on another drive. will 7200 rpm SATA drives still be good, or are there faster, more reliable and better cached drives?

FSX sceneries are such hogs - I can't buy the OrbX terrains simply because I am out of drive space...
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Chris...you don't need an i7 975 extreme chip in order to tame fsx. Many overclocked dual/quad socket 775 chips on a good mobo with matched memory will suffice.If going with a new build,however then I'd go with the i7 build purely to futureproof as much as possible.
As regards HDD's.... the best bang for your buck is the 10,000rpm 300GB Velociraptors. I'm running my FSX installation on a 750gb 32mb cache 7200rpm Samsung F1 drive (with photoscenery on a separate 64gb SSD Samsung drive). There are reports of some people having failures with the F1's ...though I've had no problems with any of my 750GB's or 1TB drives in my main pc.
 
Nsidious9 said:
Right sir, I agree. But you have to understand that the average user can't afford a standalone raid controller card. Hell, I can't. But I will say that you are right about that. But for the average/general user, people use a onboard controller. SO I guess you can say I was generally speaking.
In the future, I will try not to do so, as I see there are more technically savvy people here that need specifics and not general statements. I do apologize.
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Just don't let it happen again Texan....LOL :bump: :icon_lol:
 
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