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simulator on ssd: good or nonsense?

Bushpounder said:
That is not a true statement. Not ALL HD's die. I am using a HD that is over 10 years old. Most regular HD's WILL give a warning prior to them failing, which gives one time to copy them. An SSD fails like a light bulb. Now it's working, now it isn't.

Don
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Sadly it is 'a true statement'. Because you have a 10 year old platter that is YET TO DIE does not demonstrate anything other than timing [and luck]....;)

First indicator will often be CRC errors which you may not even notice until it's too late... most recent for me was a PSD that wouldn't open due to CRC error... requiring several hoops to be jumped through to recover what could be.

Over the years I've personally had 5 or 6 ultimately become paper-weights through either total death or total loss of confidence that data was going to be accessible.

SSDs are more intelligent and save you from bad sector issues, and with the last one I used [24/7/365 for 2 years] expected life to its demise was a further 6 years away... more than adequate for most people...particularly those who actually turn their systems off now and then...;)

Platter HDs have moving parts. They WILL die. Parts wear out.
Now if it were an IBM 'bigfoot' [a 5.25" drive] you would have been lucky if it lasted taking it out of its bag. They were famous for catastrophic failure... so much so that IBM ended up with a bad rep re drive making.

Now, the same has been said about early OCZ SSDs ... yet the one I had [little 60gig one] is still running fine and is 5 years old or so... and since then SSDs have improved leaps and bounds.

Bottom line re HDs ... NEVER have all your eggs in the one basket...ALWAYS have backups...preferably by image .... and while you're at it...have a second, redundancy backup.

Data integrity/reliability is only one factor in drive choice....the other is read/write speed.

My FSX is currently on an M.2 'drive' so it's even avoiding the 6gig SATA limit too. The fastest SSD is left in the weeds by something accessing via a PCIe....;)

Obviously price-point is the big 'limiter'...one 512gig M.2 is about the same price as 10 TB of SATA3 Platters...;)
 
FSX is on an SSD, all my bought/dl'ed planes and software are on a Raptor HD. And backed up on either DVD or an external backup drive.

FSX starts up so much faster on an SSD, and things like the free flight menu are easily 3 times faster to load on my current rig than my last. At least 3 times faster. Doesn't matter if I have a bunch of planes loaded in the SimObjects folder or not.

If it ever crashes, then I have the ability to reload FSX, throw my favorite planes and helos back in it, and have at it again on the new SSD drive.
 
FWIW I hope never to use platters for anything other than storage, ever again. FSX benefits from each link in the performance chain. Amazing that almost a decade after release, it's finally blooming into its full potential.

C
 
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