So I’m using 2 PCI-E SSD’s for FS2020 :
1 with the actual FS2020 map and 1 with add-ons bought from Orbx, Aerosoft, Simmarket etc and freeware (this way you only have to download FS2020 + the stuff in makretplace after a reinstall instead of downloading EVERYTHING, saves me about day and a halve of downloading)
My current plan is to do the same with FS2024 : 1 dedicated PCIE-E SSD for FS2024 and 1 PCI-E SSD for FS2024 for external add-ons.
My current plan is to move FS2020 to 2 SATA SSD’s (same story as before, 1 dedicated for FS2020 and 1 for external addons)
Yet, years ago there was a big discussion about putting FS2020 on SATA or PCIE SSD’s and the concenses was the best was to install it on a PCI-E SSD.
Is this still true ?
I know the YT movies from tests 3, 4 years ago, but I haven’t found anything related from this, or last year.
An other option I’m thinking about is putting FS 2020 and FS2024 on PCI-E SSD’s and use use 2 SATA SSD’s for external add-ons.
I don’t know what the perfomance impact will be if you do it like this.
PCIe SSDs are still much faster than SATA (in terms of sequential speeds) and that will never change since SATA isn’t developing; the latest version (SATA 6 Gbit/s) is from 2009. PCIe/NVMe is still developing, though the flash memory itself is the bottleneck for most operations, so random reads/writes don’t improve a ton over time.
I’m not sure why you’d want to have FOUR SSDs for flight simming, though. You are unlikely to notice any performance difference from having more than one, so get a big one, or two if the space isn’t enough.
The MSFS 2024 base install is said to be about 30 GB, so a dedicated SSD for that seems crazy to me.
It’s quite simple why I’m using multible SSD’s , and want to do the same with FS 2024 : save time if they need to be reinstalled.
The way I’m doing it now saves me about a day and a halve/ 2 days of downloading , because Orbx, Aerosoft, Simmarket and freeware are on a separete disk and only need to be linked with addon linker.
FS2020 + marketplace currently has a 900GB size, the external add-ons for FS2020 are hitting 2,6Tb.
Give me a couple of months with FS2024 sales and it will end up the same.
Can’t you just create multiple partitions instead? It sounds like your current FS2020 fits on a 4 TB disk, and 2024 supposedly uses less space. Though it seems you can store your addon data locally which will probably be a good idea.
Call it enough experience with microsoft and asorbo to know that eventually it will go ■■■■ up at some point.
It’s better to plan for that eventuality then be surprised by it.
I have two PCIe NvME SSD’s (4TB for the sim and 1TB for the OS and all other programs.) I have three other SATA SSD’s - one for all my mods, and the other two do daily backups of the NvME drives.
I plan to reinstall DCS on the 4TB drive, and maybe some other Steam games I own.
People, just bin thinking :
Like @Aeluwas said, partition 1 PCI_E SSD for FS2020 and FS2020 (1 paritition FS 2020, other paritition FS2024 etc) but move the payware addons form Orbx, Aerosoft etc from the PCI-E SSD they are on now to a 4TB SATA SSD :
Would that impact the performance much ?
It will probably increase laoding times : that I don’t care about.
But would it increase lag times, latency etc (that I DO care about)
(I need the PCI-E SSD with the add-ons on for parititioning for FS2020 and FS20224)
