Hello,For my new system, I am considering ordering 3 Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB drives. 1 for the OS + Office apps + few games, 1 for FS9 and 1 for FSX.Eventhough the drives are not very expensive (around 65 euro's / 90 US$), I am running against the limits of my budget, so would like to get your input on the following:Would I experience any negative consequences when I install FS9 and FSX together on one drive (same partition)? In this case, I could do with 2 drives. But if it would help the performance of both sims noticeably, I will go for 3...Please let me know your thoughts on this...Regards,Frank

Hi Frank,I would think you should be fine using two disks, one for the OS and the other for both of your fs9/fsx installs. This is how I run flightsim, and should give you good performance for a moderate cost. The main issue is to remove the contention between the OS and flightsim. Also fragmentation on your OS drive won't affect your fs drive. Good luck with your upgrade.Aaron

Actually, I believe I recall there being issues with two installs of FS on the same drive. What would help performance is if you had one large drive for the OS and then two Velociraptors, one for each install of FS. Of course, I know this will drive up the price and that is what you are trying to avoid.

Actually, I believe I recall there being issues with two installs of FS on the same drive. What would help performance is if you had one large drive for the OS and then two Velociraptors, one for each install of FS. Of course, I know this will drive up the price and that is what you are trying to avoid.

Jeff is correct two installs of FS on the same drive will create all kinds of problems.

Thanks for your feedback guys. Much appreciated, and I guess I'm going for the three-drive config.

....... What would help performance is if you had one large drive for the OS and then two Velociraptors, one for each install of FS. Of course, I know this will drive up the price and that is what you are trying to avoid.

I have considered doing this, but indeed it will drive up de price considerably. The 300GB Velociraptor costs about 125 euro / 175 US$ more than the F3. Multiply that by two.... sorry, no can do :( (already having quite a hard time getting this past my wife :( )Besides that... I consider the F3's as a somewhat interim solution until we get larger sized and lower priced SSD's.I'll go for the SSD route by the time we get >300GB at a <250US$ price.I recon it will take 1~2 years to get to that point....Regards,Frank

Jeff is correct two installs of FS on the same drive will create all kinds of problems.

What sort of problems? I have both FS9 and FSX on one drive and don't appear to have any probs; should I be looking for some? They are two separate apps.

What sort of problems? I have both FS9 and FSX on one drive and don't appear to have any probs; should I be looking for some? They are two separate apps.

I am wondering too. Last year microsoft team was at Oshkosh with a fsx display and I asked them the same question to which they said no issues with both on the same hd.

I am wondering too. Last year microsoft team was at Oshkosh with a fsx display and I asked them the same question to which they said no issues with both on the same hd.

I believe the general problem is not having FSX and FS9 on the same drives, but apparently some addons can give problems is both a FSX and FS9 version is installed.Regards,Frank