I built a new computer with Intel i7. I have 12GB of DDR3 RAM and 1.5 TB hard disk. To decrease the amount of defragmentation time required and to have maximum speed, should I put FSX, X-Plane, FS9 on a separate 200MB harddrive that I have from my other computer or should i partition the 1.5TB disk and put the flight programs in the new partition. When I built the computer, the sales buy said to get the 1.5TB instead of say two 500MB drives because the 1.5 TB would have the files placed closer together and so the seek time would be quicker.Anyway, that's all the info I can provide. What do you folks recommend for decreasing fragmentation problems and fastest performance?Thanks,Luke

OS and FSX on DIFFERENT physical drives - not different partitions. 2 500's would have been better but you can never have too much disk space! :)

WD Vrap as the FSX driveNo partitonsFormat to 64K Allocation (cluster)Install performance applications to that drive in root folders. Name those install folders so alphanumerically they appear in the root list with the highest level folder being the application that needs the highest access performance.. FSX would be the app that will need that advantage. Install ALL the software and addons correctly thenDefrag using O&O Defrag v11 or higher.. Process is SPACE defrag, Reboot, SPACE defrag, Reboot, Offline defrag, reboot, COMPLETE NAME defrag, reboot COMPLETE NAME defrag, reboot and do not touch the system for any reason during those defrag passes and DONT skip any of themthat drive will not fragment at ALL unless you uninstall/reinstall/add large addons over time.. if you do simply run a single COMPLETE NAME defrag to clean it up