s839sd82k Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 (edited) Anybody have experience with both (conventional HDD and SDD) on the same machine? How does moving from conventional hard drive to SDD effect X-Plane 10 loading times?Thanks.I tried searching forums for "SDD" but it wasn't allowed.By the way... What's the difference between this website and the (x-plane.org) website? Edited June 15, 2012 by s839sd82k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo W Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Pardon me for just calling you S!I wouldn't bother, I've tried it and barely noticed any improvenents. It's great to put your OS and many other disk intensive apps on though.Hahaha, good question S. Folks are more mature here, GENERALLY, moderation is definitely less insane. I could go on for longer but that'll spoil the others' fun.I think I have a good analogy. The Org is like a very large McDonald's, including similar staff training and attitude. Here it reminds me of a small hip cafe here in Melbourne, bloody good coffee and atmosphere to chat with friends over. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larjeet Posted June 17, 2012 Report Share Posted June 17, 2012 i would think that one major + with an ssd would be xplanes loading time . It would be nice to have it load faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggerm Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Being a demo user only, I can't opine on any differences between a standard disk and an SSD with XP10's full edition, but I did try this out on the demo to see what, if anything, would be different.There was a very slight improvement in loading times, and essentially no change in overall sim performance. I'm not sure if the full version will cause this loading time difference to become more pronounced, but it made only a modest difference which didn't seem entirely worth the space it takes up on the expensive SSD storage.-Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris k Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 FWIW - I'm using a Hardware RAID-5 for X-Plane. I am not noticing any significant load time changes vs a stand-alone 7200rpm drive.As well, after a few loads and re-loads of XP10 as I'm doing testing, (where I can clearly see that almost 2 Gigs of Data is now cached in RAM), it still takes quite-a-while to load.Methinks the loading bottleneck is not in disk I/O.- CK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaphias Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 How about any noticeable difference between a 5400 rpm drive and a 7200 rpm drive? Any loss of reliability with the increased speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cestomano Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 I moved XP10 to my new SSD two month ago but... no one difference (yes, there is a difference: XP crashes more often... but maybe is new Ubuntu 12.04 ... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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