Im sitting on a 250G 16MB, a 640G 16MB, and a 1TB 32MB hard drive. Today Ill be installing win7 x64 on this sytem:Intel e8400 OC'd to 4.0 (considering going to q9650 OC'd though)ASUS Rampage Formula MOBO4G 1066 RAMATI HD 5850 vidI cant seem to get a straight answer to the question of whether there would be any benefit to me putting the OS on the 250, FSX and/or FS9 on the 640, and everything else on the 1TB or should I just partition the 1TB and put everything on there?In regards to the data backup/protection, I have plans to get an external and I always have everything backed up on disc anyway so Im not too concerned about having multiple HDD's for redundancy...Im looking for PERFORMANCE considerations.Whats everyones experience and insight? Many thanks!

Im sitting on a 250G 16MB, a 640G 16MB, and a 1TB 32MB hard drive. Today Ill be installing win7 x64 on this sytem:Intel e8400 OC'd to 4.0 (considering going to q9650 OC'd though)ASUS Rampage Formula MOBO4G 1066 RAMATI HD 5850 vidI cant seem to get a straight answer to the question of whether there would be any benefit to me putting the OS on the 250, FSX and/or FS9 on the 640, and everything else on the 1TB or should I just partition the 1TB and put everything on there?In regards to the data backup/protection, I have plans to get an external and I always have everything backed up on disc anyway so Im not too concerned about having multiple HDD's for redundancy...Im looking for PERFORMANCE considerations.Whats everyones experience and insight? Many thanks!

I would put FSX on the 640, the OS all alone on the 250 and misc/whatever or other games ect on the 1TB. Doing it that way your FSX drive will stay clean and very little fragmentation will happen. For backup/disk image I highly suggest Acronis. That way you can image your drives and if a disaster should arise (and it will) you could be back up and running in no time with little effort.

I recommend FSX on a separate drive too. Not so much for any real performance gain but for the fact that you can put all other stuff with the OS drive and worry less about fragmentation. That is especially so if you run programs that create fragments, like boinc

Agreed with above - and I'll reinforce the thought that you should not put everything on the 1TB and partition it... that'd be an option of last resort if it were me. :) OS and general desktop computing programs on the 250.FSX on the 640Use the 1TB for general storage, and perhaps a backup location (for Acronis disk images) of the C: (boot/programs) and D: (FSX) drives.You could also use the 1TB drive as your OS, programs, and storage drive... but I would dedicate a physical hard drive to FSX... if only to keep everything nice and separated. This is very similar to my current setup, and it has served me quite well over the years. -Greg