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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | If you don't have an SSD Yet

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
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Marietta, GA

2,307 legs, 9,292.6 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,965 legs, 8,085.7 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,343 legs, 9,427.5 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours
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Posted onPost created on November 29 2015 10:52 ET by Luke Kolin

... get one. It's the biggest, most noticeable difference you can make to the speed of your computer. Newegg's got the 850 EVO in 500GB size for $150. (You can get the 256GB model for $80).

Run, don't walk. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147373

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA12547
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on February 21 2015
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Midwestern United States

246 legs, 544.6 hours
9 legs, 12.3 hours online
245 legs, 543.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 29 2015 12:55 ET by Daniel Grovemiller

I've heard this before and would like to do it, but I'm not sure what I would have to do after I get the new SSD and install it. It can't be as simple as copying everything from the old drive to the new drive and calling the new drive C:, can it?

Daniel Grovemiller

Captain, A320

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
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Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 29 2015 16:13 ET by Andrew Vane

The SSD I added to my home simulator computer is the closest thing to immediate speeding up of my computer and sim that I ever realized. I saw a 120GB somewhere for $40.

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA10236
Captain, B747-400

Joined on October 02 2011
Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

LaGrange, GA

107 legs, 433.3 hours
51 legs, 144.5 hours online
105 legs, 429.8 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.9 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 29 2015 21:48 ET by Jacob Buchanan

I've been looking at getting one of these, but I'm not sure if it will replace the HDD in my laptop... It's a notebook, so it's quite slim, so I'm scared to buy a paperweight.

Model is HP Envy 15j-073CL (this is it here: http://www.amazon.com/HP-TouchSmart-15-J073CL-A10-5750M-2-50GHz-4M/dp/B00GVHOQM4 )

EDIT:
did some looking and found it a bit cheaper on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E500B-AM/dp/B00OBRE5UE

I think I'll go ahead and get one and ask questions later...

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

DVA613
Senior Captain, B727-200
OLP, VFRADV

Joined on June 17 2002
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"Beware of the Green Baron!"
Charlotte, NC USA

2,469 legs, 3,973.9 hours
2,289 legs, 3,594.2 hours online
2,103 legs, 3,136.2 hours ACARS
130 legs, 238.7 hours event
165 legs dispatched, 103.9 hours

Posted onPost created on November 30 2015 13:16 ET by David Keech

I love my 3 year old 840 Evo. 23 second boot time! FSX is on a mechanical drive though.

David Keech (DVA613)

Posted onPost created on November 30 2015 14:41 ET by Jacob Buchanan

Bought the one off of Amazon, should fit.

Now I just need to figure out how to clone everything to it..

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

DVA12468
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on December 07 2014
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New York, NY

2,244 legs, 3,069.7 hours
2,114 legs, 2,894.3 hours online
2,223 legs, 3,034.2 hours ACARS
160 legs, 278.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 30 2015 15:10 ET by Nicolas Lumermann

I just want to add my 2 cents here.
I have about 6 SSDs in my sisyem for all the photoreal scenery and airports, etc and it makes a huge difference. Especially in loading times.

In terms of migration: It is as easy as it sounds. no strings attached. All you do is diwload the Scenery Config tool (free) and CUT/PASTE the scenery from your current drive to the new SSDs. Then in the Scenery Config toold, all you do is change the drive letter to the new drive. Save and open FSX thats all folks!

Nicolas Lumermann (DVA12468)

DVA12198
First Officer, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 28 2014
50 State Club
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FL

303 legs, 703.8 hours
267 legs, 584.6 hours online
292 legs, 681.8 hours ACARS
36 legs, 78.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 30 2015 18:05 ET by Tom Stallings

It is truly a great thing to do to help speed, specially if you use it as your OS drive. If possible, I recommend two, maybe an 80 for your OS, and get the 500 for your games like fsx. Most restarts for example that can take a minute or two, will only take about 15 seconds or faster on an SSD.

I tend to run all my hardcore things on the SSD, P3D, OS, AutoCad etc and leave the first loading stuff like ms office on IDE.

Tom Stallings

First Officer, B737-800

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP

Joined on July 26 2015
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"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on November 30 2015 22:12 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

I'm running my OS from an SSD (~9 second boot time) and FSX from a portable HDD (~1-2 min load time)

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

DVA7171
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on March 14 2009
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"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL

725 legs, 1,676.2 hours
573 legs, 1,401.2 hours online
716 legs, 1,660.6 hours ACARS
56 legs, 127.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 01 2015 09:18 ET by Sergio Lopez

I have the OS is an SSD and everything else on a 4T raid.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
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Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 01 2015 10:17 ET by Sean Zarella

I have my OS win7 and fs9 all 20+ gigs of it on my 240 gb Evo SSD, very very fast and have 2 aux drives for all steam games, on a 2 TB 7200 rpm drive

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

DVA12754
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2015
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Kansas City, MO

2,262 legs, 5,642.9 hours
269 legs, 756.9 hours online
2,150 legs, 5,198.3 hours ACARS
1 legs, 3.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 21 2015 09:52 ET by Anthony Kring

I can attest to the SSD comments. I was running everything on a 'spinner'. OS on a RAID0 setup with FSX and all the associated goodies on its own dedicated drive. Happened across a spare SSD (benefits of being in the IT Hardware industry) and the rest is history. It is singularly one of the best 'quick FPS fixes' you can make. Hoping to find a few more drives like that to shove in there. It is especially helpful if you are running some dated hardware. I am curious though (here begins the debate) about everyones thoughts on running it as the OS drive vs the FS drive? By that I mean, in my case I have a dedicated drive JUST FOR flying stuff. I am curious if you think it would be faster to use it for that or OS? I had thought about a debate I read discussing this and that you see more benefit as the flying drive as at least for FSX it is pulling scenery date while flying, etc and that helps speed that up. However, I too can see benefits for the OS being faster. Thoughts?

Anthony Kring

Captain, B777-200

DVA7685
Senior Captain, A320

Joined on August 25 2009
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"STABILIZER MOTION!"
Cypress, TX

482 legs, 2,232.2 hours
5 legs, 10.5 hours online
424 legs, 1,877.3 hours ACARS
14 legs dispatched, 13.5 hours

Posted onPost created on December 22 2015 11:39 ET by Jeremy Jurman

I just put that SSD in my gaming laptop. Running low on space (went from 750 GB to 500 GB), but it boots up so much faster and the textures within the sim take little to no time to load. Well worth it!

Jeremy Jurman

Senior Captain, A320

DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
OLP, VFRADV
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Herriman, UT

1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours
391 legs, 810.3 hours online
1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on December 22 2015 12:10 ET by Joe Burner

Jeremy Jurman wrote:

I just put that SSD in my gaming laptop. Running low on space (went from 750 GB to 500 GB), but it boots up so much faster and the textures within the sim take little to no time to load. Well worth it!

Shucks if performance is that good I may get an SSD myself. Especially if I run fsx on my laptop.

Joe Burner (DVA12617)

DVA8830
Captain, B757-200

Joined on July 12 2010
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Mount Jackson, VA

242 legs, 463.9 hours
1 legs, 2.2 hours online
242 legs, 463.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 08:26 ET by Tom Preziuso

I would love to switch over to an SSD, but i have no idea how to switch everything over to the new drive without screwing everything up. It sounds simple from reading the posts here, but I guess I need detailed info in order to do it.

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 09:28 ET by Jacob Buchanan

Im about to do mine tomorrow.

Basically you need three things. The SSD, the cable to connect from the SSD to the pc, and then a program to clone everything from the HDD yo tge SSD.

I purchased a 500 gig Samsung 850 and they give you the cloning software on a disc. The only thing you need after that is the $12 cable to push it all over.

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 21:06 ET by Jacob Buchanan

OH MY GOSH IS THIS FAST!!!

Coming from a 1TB 5400rpm HDD, to a Samsun 850 Evo 500gb SSD, all I can say is best purchase made for more than just FS. I've yet to test it, but everything is fast. Took .1 seconds (POINT ONE PEOPLE) to go through the bios, then after logging in on W10 it took 2 seconds. Opened Word up immediately and yeah, uh, immediately it opened. Lightroom took a few seconds, but it's better than the HDD...

We'll see what it does to FS. I don't plan to see much other than faster load times...

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 21:27 ET by Tom Preziuso

So once you clone it from you HDD, you then install the SSD into the tower?

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 21:40 ET by Jacob Buchanan

Well, it was a bit annoying for me. It depends on what SSD you have (or will get).

I bought the Samsung 850 Evo. In it came the CD cloning software called magician. At first I tried this, but it said it couldn't find the SSD. So I looked online "Samsung Magician can't find SSD Windows 10," and it looked like the software doesn't quite work with me yet. So I found a thread saying to go here:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/pc/support.html?CID=AFL-hq-mul-0813-11000279

At the bottom of the page (or near bottom) there's a title called "Samsung Data Migration Software". I'm not sure what the difference between this is and the Magician, as it looks exactly the same.

But, after you download, extract, and run as admin, you select language, it installs, and then it will close. Open it back up, and you'll have your source disk (Your HDD in you pc right now) and it will say "please connect target disk" underneath. Plug in the adapter to the SSD, then into the USB port. In a few seconds (it's not instant) it will pop up. It should be completely clean. It will show then how much data is going to be cloned, and then on the bottom right is begin or something like that.

It took me 1 hour to clone 300 gigs, which is great timing from what I read. So after you clone, it will say it's complete and it will shut down by itself. Pull the battery out, find your HDD, and pull off the rubber cover (there might be a metal cage that the rubber covers, if so, don't break it, it's important) and place the SSD in its spot. Put everything back together, and start up.

I'm still on the same reboot as when started, but it all works fine. I'll probably shut it down tonight and restart tomorrow to start out true clean..

Now I just need to delete a lot (a lot) of photos...

I didn't really notice that much of an FPS increase however. Although I was in the heaviest payware aircraft there is for FS9 right now, and at Imagine Sims KATL, which isn't great either. I'll try somewhere else tonight and report back.. Hope this helps. I know I was furious when I tried to find something on why it wouldn't recognize. I thought for a second I got scammed and it was a fake SSD, but it all turned out fine. I have almost 170 gigs of space left, which I don't see me using all that too soon..

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

DVA10173
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 17 2011
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Fort Lauderdale, FL USA

359 legs, 819.1 hours
318 legs, 638.2 hours online
348 legs, 800.8 hours ACARS
3 legs, 6.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 22:23 ET by Eric Fields

I just did that yesterday. Got a Crucial MX200 1tb at TigerDirects going out of business for 279.00. Clone process was so smooth and I can't believe the difference on my end. I used Acronis to clone and it was a breeze. Easiest thing I've done!

Eric Fields

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on December 30 2015 22:33 ET by Jacob Buchanan

Dang that's a steal for just 279...

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

DVA4510
Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on May 23 2007
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Anchorage, AK USA

264 legs, 706.5 hours
31 legs, 81.5 hours online
263 legs, 705.3 hours ACARS
2 legs, 5.4 hours event
8 legs dispatched, 18.7 hours

Posted onPost created on December 31 2015 10:28 ET by David Arnold

Thanks for the heads up. I need to get another one, but I have a Samsung EVO already, 256GB and I completely agree, My OS and my sim stuff are on the SSD and it is an incredible difference in speed!

David Arnold

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on January 02 2016 15:48 ET by Joe Burner

Jeremy Jurman wrote:

I just put that SSD in my gaming laptop. Running low on space (went from 750 GB to 500 GB), but it boots up so much faster and the textures within the sim take little to no time to load. Well worth it

Shoot I may get one myself. I have been running into a big loss of frames (not too sure why) steam did an update last night and since then my frames dropped considerably! From 20's to 14. Also noticed my textures mainly on the ground are not loading properly. I am testing with a fresh re install of everything. Acars included. If it doesn't improve, can anyone attest of getting a SSD for fsx worth it? Also another thing will an SSD work wonders for a laptop? I use my Asus Windows 8.1 laptop for fsx. Used to run super smooth. Aerosoft airbuses ran smooth and now I'm like oh my gosh.

Thank you

Posted onPost created on January 05 2016 00:02 ET by Jacob Buchanan

Depends Joe. I didn't see that much of an increase in FPS Joe, maybe 1, maybe 2. And FS9 still loads on startup only slightly faster than what it used to. However, once I click fly now, it's blazing fast, and there's no texture pop-ins.

So as far as performance wise, no it won't increase frames. It will increase texture load times, resulting in a more seamless experience if they were quite slow and all you saw was the matte grey bodies for a few seconds.

Outside of FS, well, it's a world of a difference. Word takes milliseconds to open, and Adobe Lightroom is just under three seconds (what used to be 20). File transfers are done in instantaneous speeds, and when I deleted 10 gigs of pictures to make more room, it was done in about 2 seconds.

Jacob Buchanan (DVA10236)

Posted onPost created on January 05 2016 11:16 ET by Sean Zarella

In my case the SSD didnt directly affect FS9 once the sim was running, however load times were quicker, But as Jacob stated everything else including a -20 second boot time to desktop once post is amazing,

On the flip side, going from a 8 core amd 8120 4.2 ghz fs9 load times were around 30 seconds, I use FS autostart, to auto start all my programs for fs and had to wait for fs to load before i could start say acars, saitek tool ect,

When i recently upgraded to the intel 4790k 4 core with hyperthreading a 4.7 ghz my fs9 loads under 10 seconds from splash screen to options, had to reconfigure my seperating time drastically, now paired with my ssd everything i mean EVERYTHING is fast !

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

DVA11701
Captain, B747-400
OLP

Joined on July 30 2011
50 State Club
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Nijmegen, Gelderland The Netherlands

290 legs, 1,050.1 hours
95 legs, 406.2 hours online
290 legs, 1,050.1 hours ACARS
11 legs, 25.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on February 02 2016 13:49 ET by Liam Kroes

If you get an SSD, don't get the Crucial BX200. It's one of the worst.

Liam Kroes

Captain, B747-400

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