Where, in your opinion, would be the best place to install FS9 add-on sceneries?Having just performed an upgrade / maintenance to my computer I re-installed the OS (Windows 7 64-bit) and the FS9 from scratch. I have three, 1TB WD Caviar Black HDs, each partitioned into smaller partitions. The OS is installed on the first partition of the first physical drive, FS9 in the first partition on the second drive. I have about 50 GB of add on sceneries, payware, freware. Previously all this scenery was installed on the same drive and the same partition where the FS9 was installed. I started to wonder if there would be any benefit to installing all this scenery on the third drive. My way of thinking is that perhaps it could be accessed faster, as it would be read separately from where the FS9 resides. Do you think there would be any noticeable difference in speed in which the scenery is loaded into memory? I'm running Win 7 64-bit, Intel Core I7 965 extreme, overclocked @ 4.0GHz, 6 GB RAM, Nvidia GT280. I'm far from being an expert in this matter by any stretch of imagination, therefore I'd like to know what you guys think. Ted - CYQL

Look for the drive that has the fastest link to the motherboard. So USB drives will be slower than internal drives. Other than that it is probably more important to keep the drive defragged than anything else. Memory and processor speeds and probably more important than drive transfer rates.