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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Going to buy new 2-3TB hard drive
DVA5974
Captain, B777-200

Joined on May 27 2008
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Basking Ridge, NJ USA

324 legs, 1,326.6 hours
319 legs, 1,305.4 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 14:34 ET by Nikolay Klimchuk
Will use FSX on Win7
Any suggestions? Would appreciate specific model or links


DVA4965
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on September 07 2007
Online Quintuple Century Club
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
Everett Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Saratoga Springs, UT USA

1,195 legs, 3,500.8 hours
566 legs, 825.5 hours online
1,174 legs, 3,437.6 hours ACARS
26 legs, 51.6 hours event
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 14:46 ET by Alan Cluff
For best performance you might think about a smaller higher speed drive. A large drive requires a lot maintenance time to keep defragmented. I have a 2 TB drive on which I keep all of my backup files but my FSX and FS9 drives are either 150 or 300 GB spinning at 10,000 rpm.

Alan Cluff

Senior Captain, B737-800
DVA5974
Captain, B777-200

Joined on May 27 2008
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Basking Ridge, NJ USA

324 legs, 1,326.6 hours
319 legs, 1,305.4 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:20 ET by Nikolay Klimchuk
I hear your point Alan but isn't SSD would be a better solution in this case?
Also need some more space than 150-300 GB.


DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB

385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs, 1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:23 ET by Alan Barber
+1 on smaller drives. I've just bought a few Samsung Spinpoint of varying sizes, got the 32mb cache versions. Very quiet and very fast - can't believe they are 7200rpm.

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300
DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB

385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs, 1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:24 ET by Alan Barber
Sorry Nikolay, didn't realise you were looking at SSD.

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300
DVA5974
Captain, B777-200

Joined on May 27 2008
50 State Club
Triple Century Club

Basking Ridge, NJ USA

324 legs, 1,326.6 hours
319 legs, 1,305.4 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:24 ET by Nikolay Klimchuk
Alan Barber wrote:

Sorry Nikolay, didn't realise you were looking at SSD.


No, I'm looking for normal HDD


DVA7016
Senior Captain, B767-300

Joined on February 14 2009
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"I5 2500K - 560GTX - 8GB Ripjaw"
Essex GB

385 legs, 1,090.6 hours
384 legs, 1,089.6 hours ACARS
1,821 legs, 4,442.9 hours total
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:28 ET by Alan Barber
Sorry again. If poss, I would recommend having a separate physical drive for you FS installation. FS does perform better that way. You could go for a larger drive for your OS etc and something smaller for FS.

Edit: Do try googling the Samsung Spinpoints - they get really good reviews.

Alan Barber

Senior Captain, B767-300
AFV313
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on June 11 2010
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"Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away!"
Howick, KwaZulu-Natal ZA

2,941 legs, 9,560.6 hours
1,901 legs, 5,926.6 hours online
2,853 legs, 9,199.0 hours ACARS
58 legs, 272.0 hours event
350 legs dispatched, 155.5 hours
 Posted onPost created on August 28 2011 15:56 ET by Robert Armstrong
Personally I run Windows on a 500GB drive (I know, far too big for just windows :P) then I have my FSX installation on another 500GB drive. I then have a 500GB external which I use as a backup drive for FSX amongst other things. Finally I have a 1TB drive for other things like, Music, Games, etc. This works quite well...

I'm running a collection of Seagate Barracuda drives. Love them, quiet and fast.

Just my 2 cents smile

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