Hi FolksOrdered a new WD Raptor 10'000RPM 150GB 16mb SATA II drive today, this is going into my soon to be finished Core2Duo rig for FSX, my question is, should I have XP and FSX on the same drive? (I also have 1 x 500gb 7200RPM & 1 x 250gb 7200RPM drive in this machine)I would be partitioning the Raptor but wonder if there is any advantage of having FSX on a different drive (not partition)than the OS, I know its beneficial having the swap file on a separate drive.All drives are SATA II and I'm pretty confident of a good overclock with the parts I've bought, just not sure about this aspect or if it really makes any difference? *if* it is advantageous to have FSX on a separate drive I'd probably buy another Raptor for this.With SP1 just around the corner and this new rig almost complete, looking for every advantage I can get for FSX performance.Thanks for any help on this.

I've done the OS/FS install on the same and different drives a couple times each. I've never noticed any performance, IQ, smoothness differences myself. I now just install FS on my OS drive....I know its beneficial having the swap file on a separate drive.This does indeed make a difference (primarily with texture loading), but the page file must be on a drive at least as fast (read/write throughput) as the OS drive.Hope this helps,

>...I know its beneficial having the swap file on a separate>drive.>>This does indeed make a difference (primarily with texture>loading), but the page file must be on a drive at least as>fast (read/write throughput) as the OS drive.>>Hope this helps,Hi, that does help, never knew that, also just found the "Bite the Bullet" thread on page 2 here that answers all my other questions about using Raptor drives with flight sim.Thanks