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DVA9203
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on November 20 2010
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
"You can't take the sky from me"
Soda Springs, ID
403 legs, 1,604.4 hours
222 legs,
623.5 hours online
402 legs,
1,602.6 hours ACARS
15 legs,
40.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 11 2012 03:49 ET by Jacob Epperly
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Hello,
I've had a 55GB SSD as my flight sim drive, and I'm all out of room. I can't decide whether I want to replace both my system drive and FS drive with three 1TB drives (two for a RAID 0 and one reserved for backup), or a >120GB SSD as a boot/FSX drive, with a second standard 1TB disk for data storage. I'd like to hear thoughts/opinions from you guys. Perhaps a better configuration I haven't considered? Price cap for replacement drives will be around $300 US.
Thanks in advance.
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online
580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs,
191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
July 11 2012 11:54 ET by Michael Brown
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Take a look at Newegg.com (if you already haven't) ....they have lots of good deals. Not sure how much more space you need/want for the FS drive...you could use your existing SSD as the system drive, buy a 64GB SSD for FSX, and then still have $200+ to figure out a storage solution.
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DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP
Joined on March 03 2011
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Quad-Jet Quartermaster
US Coastal Club
US Mountaineer Club
Million Mile Club
Events Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Toulouse 500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Online Twenty Century
"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil
2,507 legs, 5,067.5 hours
2,336 legs,
4,789.1 hours online
2,499 legs,
5,037.9 hours ACARS
271 legs,
683.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 11 2012 13:09 ET by Thiago Braga
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Michael,
I have 64GB SSD and it is getting full. I would go for 128GB SSD at least.
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DVA9203
Captain, B747-400
OLP
Joined on November 20 2010
50 State Club
Online Double Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
"You can't take the sky from me"
Soda Springs, ID
403 legs, 1,604.4 hours
222 legs,
623.5 hours online
402 legs,
1,602.6 hours ACARS
15 legs,
40.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 12 2012 23:55 ET by Jacob Epperly
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Thanks for responding gentlemen.
I poked around NewEgg and here's what I came up with:
Corsair 128GB SATA III Solid-State http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233226
Western Digital 1TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136533
These should last me a good long time. Corsair's durable all around, and my co-worker highly recommends Western Digital drives.
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DVA3196
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP, COMM
Joined on June 03 2006
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Six Century Club
"pitchpowertrim.com"
Anderson, MO
619 legs, 1,093.4 hours
292 legs,
503.1 hours online
580 legs,
1,026.5 hours ACARS
89 legs,
191.0 hours event
236 legs dispatched, 110.1
hours
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Posted onPost created on
July 13 2012 10:23 ET by Michael Brown
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Western is good ...I personally go with seagate
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DVA9589
First Officer, A320
Joined on March 14 2011
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
Commuter Conquest
Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett 500 Club
Stuart, IA USA
1,495 legs, 2,393.1 hours
45 legs,
90.3 hours online
1,480 legs,
2,370.6 hours ACARS
4 legs,
8.4 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
July 13 2012 11:10 ET by Randy Donnelly
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Just finished installing INTEL 330 180 gb SSD dedicated FSX. 164.00. New
Randy DonnellyFirst Officer, A320
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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
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Posted onPost created on
July 17 2012 14:17 ET by Nikolay Klimchuk
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Randy, how much of free space left after Windows and FSX installation?
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