Hardware Ideal Orbiter media installation

[jroly]

I've been considering moving my Orbiter 16 install from my hard drive to a SSD, I was wondering if 128GB USB3 would be an ideal cheaper alternative. I think with Orbiter 16 it is not so much the raw transfer speed rather the seek time. Has anyone tried this? I want to reduce texture/elevation loading time as it is very noticeable when changing views or on time acceleration.

 

[Enjo]

The seek time bottleneck has been removed since the advent of the new texture format. Now the bottlenecks will be:
- CPU if you use compressed textures
- hard drive's read speed if you use raw textures and maybe CPU if it's very weak.

 

[Abloheet]

How has the seek time bottleneck been removed? By the loading of tiles using a seperate thread?

 

[ADSWNJ]

I did the same, but with a 250GB SSD. My dedicated O: drive for orbiter, main \Orbiter_2016 and \Orbiter_2010, orbiter download repo, and orbiter code development. Works great, especially for clean reinstalls of Orbiter.

 

[Enjo]

How has the seek time bottleneck been removed? By the loading of tiles using a seperate thread?

The seek time bottleneck has been removed since the advent of the new texture format.

Actually I was supposed to say - special archive format designed by MartinS. It allows for faster searches for according tiles.