Jack the Swede in Spain Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Today I installed some photo-scenery for my P3d v2. This is what I have Installed so far of add-ons. EVERYTHiNG from ORBX P3D v2 ready. FSGlobal Ultimate REX Texture Direct Active SkyNext for P3D TopCat Aerosoft PFP Avilasoft EFB Complete Spain Photo Scenery NL2000 ALL of Swedish freeware + SwedenDesign (I´m a BETA tester, it´s also freeware) ALL of Norway freeware Most important add-ons of Danish freeware and some payware. Tongas Fjords + 3-4 smaller Airports in Europe This totals about 519 GB!!!!!!! I still have a lot of ORBX sceneries coming in the near future to install. Why am I telling you this? Well all of you planning to invest in an SSD smaller tha 512 GB....... forget it. It might be enough for now but in a very short time you will run into trouble. Jack the Swede in Spain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 I agree Jack. Space is becoming a real problem. I just ordered a 1TB Western Digital Velociraptor to replace a 500GB Samsung SSD. I originally had a 250GB Velociraptor which I replaced with the SSD. Other than initial load times the SSD performed no better with FSX or P3D that the 10,000 rpm HHDs. I would really encourage folks to look at available HDD options as the cost factor is so favorable and the performance loss so small as compared to a SSD. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windquest Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Well said. SSD's just don't help the sim and are just expensive per GB for the little gained. Velociraptor's are the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack the Swede in Spain Posted August 6, 2014 Author Share Posted August 6, 2014 I just freed some space on my FS HDD. I moved my Spanish Photo Scenry (122 GB) to another HDD and linked to that HDD in the P3D scenery library. Am i glad that you guys supprt my opinion that an SSD is a waste of money if it´s ONLY for FS. OR.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeronauta Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 "an SSD is a waste of money if it´s ONLY for FS." agree in todays environment but wait for P3D and lots of scenery and realism data to process and display and you will see that if you cannot get that data fast enough from the disk to memory the CPU cannot process it and neither. the GPU.. Jorge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Terry Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I filled my 500GB SSD and have just installed a 1TB SSD and will begin filling that up. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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