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Your thoughts on using SSD's with FSX Please

In general, an SSD will improve loading times, but generally has little to no effect on frame rates. The only thing that will guarantee a higher frame rate is improving the CPU or overclocking a current CPU.

I run FSX off a dedicated 240Gb OCZ drive, have great loading times even with larger, more complex scenery locations... I can recommend it, but only if you have the cash spare... remember that you can get Raptors for less than half the price for the same capacity...

Oh, and do not defrag the SSDs, you should only perform TRIMs from time to time...

Andrew
 
Could you please provide me some explanations on this "TRIM" feature ?
I have two SSD drives, one for Windows and one for FSX, but I never "configured" them or perform any specific action. I heard about this TRIM before, but I really don't know what it is about...
 
From what I understand, if you have Windows 7 you are using it. It is something W7 does when saving to the SSD to save space. Someone else needs to get technical here cuz I can't lol.

LouP
 
Daube said:
Could you please provide me some explanations on this "TRIM" feature ?
I have two SSD drives, one for Windows and one for FSX, but I never "configured" them or perform any specific action. I heard about this TRIM before, but I really don't know what it is about...
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Trim is for SSDs only, native to Windows 7, and is transparent to the user. Trim, Garbage Collection, and Defrag are kinda synonymous.
Trim basically cleans file fragments left behind by file moves/deletes, and does it "on the fly" with no user input required.

If you have an SSD, be sure Defragging for that drive(s) is NOT enabled. Defragging an SSD will reduce it's life span...Don
 
This topic is roughly over a year old. I stumbled onto it while doing a search in Google.
I'm looking to buy an SSD for FSX/Prepar3D. Considering this topic is over a year old I thought it might be a good one to revive.

What would you guys/gals suggest is my best option as an SSD just used by the flight simulator?
I'm thinking about 240-300 gigish should be large enough.

Who knows, if the price is right I may spring for a 120ssd for the OS also. Which is W7/64.
 
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