HDD Storage

[Racn]

While taking advangtage of the many good products on sale at the new Store, my storage space is becoming limited.
I have 3 HDD now, Operating System on 1, Flight sim on 2, Steam games and Trainz on 3.
All of them are 7200rpm and I cant complain how this system runs.
Would there be any point to buying a faster HDD like the 10,000 rpm to put Trainz on, I dont plan on reinstalling Windows or Flight Sim, so if the Operating System is the drive that requires the faster HDD then I wouldnt bother.
Thanks.

 

[RRSignal]

I'd get an SSD for Trainz. I'm actually going to be buying one myself soon. In another thread, someone posted a 512Gb (Vertex 4, I think) for about $330. SSDs have come down to where they're competitive with the likes of Raptor HDDs. That's about $0.66 a Gb. More capacity than I need, but something for you to consider. I'd get one with a SATA-III connector. The Kingston 830, Plextor m3 Pro and OCZ Vertex 4 and Crucial m4 are currently some of the most highly-rated SSDs on the market, especially in the 256Gb category.

However, I will say that it helps a lot to run the OS on the faster drive. It's not a requirement, but it helps.

 

[Racn]

Thank you sir.
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX38936 That would work with Asus MB P5nt-deluxe?

 

[BD1]

placemarker

 

[clam1952]

I tried installing TS10 on a regular USB external HD, and the framerates were low, I am unsure if an external SSD HD would also be slow ?

USB3 is supposed to be capable of handling the Transfer rates for SSD's not that I've tried it. I just stuff my PC's full of Hard drives, most motherboards have plenty of Sata Ports and most cases have at least one spare hard drive bay more often they have 4 or 6

I've added a pair of OCZ Agility 3's internally, a 128GB for the OS and a 240GB for Trainz, no problems with them.

 

[Racn]

Decided on just getting a storage drive, nothing fancy, this whole system is becoming outdated, even though it runs Trainz 12 very very well. XP 32 bit and its best hardware from yesteryear are pretty much eol.

 

[RRSignal]

Decided on just getting a storage drive, nothing fancy, this whole system is becoming outdated, even though it runs Trainz 12 very very well. XP 32 bit and its best hardware from yesteryear are pretty much eol.

I'm going to be running both XP-32 and XP-64 for many years to come; I wouldn't touch the newer MS operating systems with a 10 foot pole, last of all Windows 8.

 

[jcardana]

Have you ever heard of UltimateDefrag?

It allows you to specify where on the HDD to put files. If you bought a 2TB, placed trainz on it and moved everything to the outer tracks of the HDD, it does load faster.

 

[jcardana]

I'm going to be running both XP-32 and XP-64 for many years to come; I wouldn't touch the newer MS operating systems with a 10 foot pole, last of all Windows 8.

And how much longer is MS going to support XP?

 

[Racn]

Heres how my Trainz drive looks http://www.4shared.com/photo/KOhjxhZw/screenshot10.html Ultimate Defrag is really good program

 

[RRSignal]

And how much longer is MS going to support XP?

Til Spring of 2014. However, it really doesn't matter. Malware doesn't enter from OS holes, and I don't use Internet Explorer, so whether or not Microsoft patches it doesn't make a difference. Less so if you run it on non-internet gaming machine as I do. I haven't patched my internet-facing machines in 2 years and my gaming rig has never been patched, although my copy of XP-64 was pretty well patched-up when I got it.

XP will be viable as long as there is hardware it will run on.