I am thinking of installing Windows 7 64-bit and then Microsoft Flight Simulator onto a 80GB Intel X25-M SSD.
I see from Process Monitor that during a flight, FS9.exe (the game's executable file) is accessed hundreds of times a second - but given that for cost reasons I would need to have all my 3rd. party FlightSim data (100s of GBs) on a conventional SATA drive, is there likely to be such a serious bottleneck as fsx.exe on the SSD reads scenery data from a separate SATA drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache) that it would invalidate the whole idea of having SS drives at all?
May be that you have to know Microsoft Flight Simulator to answer this (perhaps some reading this do!), but comments appreciated. Thank you.
Martin
I see from Process Monitor that during a flight, FS9.exe (the game's executable file) is accessed hundreds of times a second - but given that for cost reasons I would need to have all my 3rd. party FlightSim data (100s of GBs) on a conventional SATA drive, is there likely to be such a serious bottleneck as fsx.exe on the SSD reads scenery data from a separate SATA drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache) that it would invalidate the whole idea of having SS drives at all?
May be that you have to know Microsoft Flight Simulator to answer this (perhaps some reading this do!), but comments appreciated. Thank you.
Martin