Hello,I posted about this little problem over on "simforums", but the site doesn't seem to be all that active at the moment so I thought I'd go ahead and shamelessly copy+paste my problem description here. I recently purchased a new HDD, and as a result I've been spending some time reloading all of my software. My current configuration looks like this: My intention was to keep my OS and various non-gaming applications on Disk 0 (drive C: partition), an SSD, and all my games on Disk 1 (partition D:). The idea was that I could have all sorts of background processes running from Disk 0, and by having my games on a dedicated HDD then there would be nothing to slow down the file accessing when gaming (as the game files will be accessed from a different drive than the various background processes). However, now, being half way through installing all my FSX stuff (not installed any other games, it's just FSX on Disk 1), I'm thinking of the possibility of maybe reserving 300GB for only FSX in the form of a partition. This way, from what I understand, FSX+addons would be on a dedicated, smaller part of the physical disk drive, reducing the distance the HDD head has to travel to read data when using FSX (as opposed to not partitioning, whereby some FSX data could be on one end of the HDD, and some on the other extreme). Are my thoughts accurate? Would creating an FSX partition at this stage indeed limit the FSX data to one small section of the physical drive? Another thing, assuming I'm correct, is the location of the partition. Is the beginning of the drive (the bit where FSX will be) on the outside or the inside of the drive platter? From what I can tell, being on the outside of the platter will result in better transfer rates, as the further out from the centre the greater the actual speed of the platter will be (assuming angular velocity is constant across the entire platter, but I'm guessing I'd have greater concerns if it wasn't ). If it's relevant, I'm using the Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 HDD for my games. I'd greatly appreciate any advice you guys might have, thanks! Odai.

Hello,I posted about this little problem over on "simforums", but the site doesn't seem to be all that active at the moment so I thought I'd go ahead and shamelessly copy+paste my problem description here. I recently purchased a new HDD, and as a result I've been spending some time reloading all of my software. My current configuration looks like this: My intention was to keep my OS and various non-gaming applications on Disk 0 (drive C: partition), an SSD, and all my games on Disk 1 (partition D:). The idea was that I could have all sorts of background processes running from Disk 0, and by having my games on a dedicated HDD then there would be nothing to slow down the file accessing when gaming (as the game files will be accessed from a different drive than the various background processes). However, now, being half way through installing all my FSX stuff (not installed any other games, it's just FSX on Disk 1), I'm thinking of the possibility of maybe reserving 300GB for only FSX in the form of a partition. This way, from what I understand, FSX+addons would be on a dedicated, smaller part of the physical disk drive, reducing the distance the HDD head has to travel to read data when using FSX (as opposed to not partitioning, whereby some FSX data could be on one end of the HDD, and some on the other extreme). Are my thoughts accurate? Would creating an FSX partition at this stage indeed limit the FSX data to one small section of the physical drive? Another thing, assuming I'm correct, is the location of the partition. Is the beginning of the drive (the bit where FSX will be) on the outside or the inside of the drive platter? From what I can tell, being on the outside of the platter will result in better transfer rates, as the further out from the centre the greater the actual speed of the platter will be (assuming angular velocity is constant across the entire platter, but I'm guessing I'd have greater concerns if it wasn't ). If it's relevant, I'm using the Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 HDD for my games. I'd greatly appreciate any advice you guys might have, thanks! Odai.

Partitioning the FSX hard-drive is not recommended... you can accomplish all you want by using a Defrag utility like O&O. If you can fit the FSX scenery folders on the SSD, that might actually be best, since the sim reads a lot ofscenery files while in flight.