Dadtom65 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Everyone. Anybody tried the the hybrid drives for FSX. Supposed to be part Ssd and normal drive. Just wondering if they are any good. At the momment have a 250 Ssd for FSX, and looks like going to need a 500 Ssd or even bigger later. Thanks Derek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi, better go to SSD. Improvements of hybrids are not as good as expected and they are not very cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadtom65 Posted March 24, 2015 Author Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Richard. Thanks for that, guessed they prob wouldn't be that good. Ah well anybody got a spare 500 gig Ssd they don't whant and could give to a poor pensioner. He he. Happy Flying to all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewit Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I've had no problems with mine But then again I don't try to tweak the hell out of every thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skywreck Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Hi Everyone. Anybody tried the the hybrid drives for FSX. Supposed to be part Ssd and normal drive. Just wondering if they are any good. At the momment have a 250 Ssd for FSX, and looks like going to need a 500 Ssd or even bigger later. Thanks Derek. I have a 250Gb SSD for Operating system and a Seagate 2Tb Hybrid for P3D and sceneries. Having had in the past standard HDs have no intention of ever going back to them. Hybrid is faster and a lot quieter as well. Would not hesitate to recommend them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdguy Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 I've gone straight SSD although I kept 1TB standard hard drive in there just for FSX/Orbx Backup. It has all the Orbx installation files on it as well a copy of my FSX/Orbx installation which I update every time I add something to FSX. I've got a 250GB SSD for the OS and my train simulator. Another 250B SSD for both of my FS9 installations plus the 100GB worth of Pilot's Ultimate mesh for FSX. And a 500GB SSD for FSX/Orbx. Noel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Dodger Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Probably the greatest improvement I have made, so far, to my FSX installation is to use a 1TB Seagate SSHD (Hybrid - see my specs)). This drive is only for FSX and addons. Once the drive settled down, after initial installation, and 'became used' to my regular startup routine I found it was giving me more consistent frames, faster load times and almost non-existent stutters. Very much a case of money on a budget well spent. I also have a Samsung 840 Pro SSD for P3D with limited airports and mostly A2A aircraft. My video card holds me back in P3D so I tend to stay with FSX. My operating system and other general junk is on a pair of 500GB hard drives configured in RAID 0. All works well for me in my now older system Regards, Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest M31 Posted March 24, 2015 Share Posted March 24, 2015 Probably the greatest improvement I have made, so far, to my FSX installation is to use a 1TB Seagate SSHD (Hybrid Just wait until you try a dedicated SSD performance system then No way are Hybrid drives offering better performance than even slow SSD's ... this is just another example of folk willing there major purchase to be better after they laid down their hard earned cash for it and putting their faith into it. SSD Hybrid drives are a useless invention that I bet we'll see less and less of quite shortly, the prices of SSD's are dropping so fast these days you might as well go full speed for a proper SSD full speed Fix IMHO and pay the worthwhile extra more for. I did consider a hybrid drive once for capacity when I wanted a fast 1TB drive to replace my already fast 1TB mechanical Western Digital Velociraptor, but upon research just went for a dedicated 1TB SSD and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewit Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 I don't think any one has suggested that Hybrids are as fast as SSDs but if your needing 1 TB space at a reasonably cheap price (Can't justify the price of 1TB SSD) this is a good compromise Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sangsom Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 All of a sudden my Seagate 1TB SSHD(Hybrid)passed away after 14 months of working. My experience: Windows-boot-up-time was a bit faster. No other benefit at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 SSD's are down enough in price, I currently have 2. One 80gb as a C drive that just has Windows on it. One 500gb as a D drive for FSX and all addons. I also have one 1tb SATA drive for storage purposes only. This works for me. Having the O/S on an SSD is a substantial boost and having FSX on an SSD is an improvement, especially in things like installing, reinstalling, re-configuring things like REX or Ultimate Traffic, basically any time consuming process, also no more defrag ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 2 SSD complete failure in not even 2 years, luckily not on my FSX rig. Both Kingston. Not a happy camper. I lost all on it and some stuff i didn't backup... Bad luck, you tell me? Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cthiggin2 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 2 ea - Samsung EVO, 1TB each..............will never go back....still use 2 Velico-Raptor which have been superb in their own right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boleyd Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Aren't they only made by Seagate. If so, that is an indication of their popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 2 ea - Samsung EVO, 1TB each..............will never go back....still use 2 Velico-Raptor which have been superb in their own right. Yes the Samsung EVO's are my preference as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ridinroun Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I got a hybrid when I was using a laptop. OS startup was really fast but that was the only real difference I noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teecee Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Two smaller SSD"s Total half Terrabyte.. in a raid array and dedicated to prepar3d V2.5.. works for me. teecee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Newman Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 I currently have 1 120Gb SSD strictly for Windows and a few basic programs, 1x 1Tb Sata3 for file storage and 2x 500Gb Sata3 configured into a single 1Tb RAID0 array for flight sim and some other games. I'm very happy with this setup... The RAID0 is fast (not as fast as SSD, granted) enough to do flight sim justice, and I don't have to worry about constant writes to the SSD when simming. SSDs after all have limited read/write cycles and fail much sooner than regular magnetic platen based drives. Of course, prices and capacities are improving almost daily so perhaps in a few years time, we'll have SSDs so cheap that they're considered disposable ....... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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