I have a new computer which includes two hdd's. The main is a 1TB WD 7200 and the 2nd is a 750GB WD 7200. Right now I have my OS and various programs installed on the 1TB drive while FSX is installed alone on the 750GB. I'm ready to go back and install FS9 and all of my many add-ons for it. Would you place FS9 (and add-ons) on the 1TB drive with the other progams, or would you place it on the 750GB where FSX is the ONLY program installed? Does it even make any real difference? Thoughts are appreciated and thank you!

FS9 should go on the same drive as FSX.

I have a new computer which includes two hdd's. The main is a 1TB WD 7200 and the 2nd is a 750GB WD 7200. Right now I have my OS and various programs installed on the 1TB drive while FSX is installed alone on the 750GB. I'm ready to go back and install FS9 and all of my many add-ons for it. Would you place FS9 (and add-ons) on the 1TB drive with the other progams, or would you place it on the 750GB where FSX is the ONLY program installed? Does it even make any real difference? Thoughts are appreciated and thank you!

Every time I see this I cringe a little. >FS9+FSXFS9 should go on the second drive that FSX is on, however:If you are going to invest any kind of time with add-ons for either sim, you should consider partitioning the drive and keeping them each seperate for I/O access and fragmentation benefits further down the road. Why:Starts to become an issue as you install/delete/install various add-ons.Chunks of scenery and many other files are meant to be installed close together for best performance i.e.; bgl/textures and were optimized to be read >consecutively. Later down the road even if you run a defrag by name (recommended) its going start looking messy for the drive head (not to mention some of the poorly written installers). Many bgls and other files in FSX&9 have close to or the exact same name so I am sure you can figure out were this could lead. A few Defragers may offer you a way around this, I think it would be a zone& name; where you specify each main FS folder...but I think the partitioning would be better in the long run for you.Might be better off posting this question in the main FS9/FSX forum, lots of veterans in there.

Wouldn't defrags by "name" be just about as good as partitioning?