What kind of options do I have now that I'm looking at only 30gb left on my 120gb ssd drive?The sad part is, I installed from scratch, and I only have REX, Activesky, Orbx North America Blue installed.Haven't even installed REX2 OD or Ultimate Terrain and Ground Environment. I assume once those are installed I will barely have any space left.So should I return this drive and get a 250gb ssd? Or buy another 120gb ssd and run a raid?

I have all that stuff plus all the pmdg aircraft, leveld etc etc and have all three ORBX NA sceneries and my hd is at 64 gb is your ssd a dedicated hd? Meaning your OS and other doc's are on a different drive? If you have everything on 1 hd maby you should get another ssd and put you OS on that and have the other 120 ssd just for fsx.

I have just one hard drive, my 120gb ssdwin7 64bit with sp1 seems to have taken up about 30+ gigs of spaceJust fsx with sp2, rex2, all 3 orbx na sceneries, all the payware na airports they offer, and I only have 40gb left!!I have a 1tb western digital sata drive, but I love the speed of the ssdI guess I could buy another 120gb ssd when I can afford it, and reinstall fsx only on there? 120gb for everything should be enoughI just can't imagine having much space left once I start installing ultimate terrain, ground environment, and all my aerosoft, fsdreamteam, flytampa scenery

Why are you using your sad for everything? It's totally uneconomical use of an SSD.If you want both windows and fsx on SSD, then you should have two.Installing ground environment or rex2 is totally useless, since how often really do you install new textures or open gex? They should be on the fixed drive.SSD is a premium drive which should be used for heavy use only: main windows installation, with outsourced programs on fixed drive and one SSD for fsx folder installation drive. If you can't afford 2nd, then the best thing is windows and all on fixed and SSD for fsx installation ALONE.Good luck!

You can free up space by moving the page file to a different drive, disabling hibernation and drive search indexing:Also, Win 7's SP1 leaves a lot of backup stuff that can be removed:

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsupersededpause

save that in a .bat file and run itThat should free up 20 - 30GBIf you RAID SSD's you lose TRIM and will need to periodically backup and secure-erase the volume to avoid degradation. Personally I think it's not worth it--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------EDIT: check this out: http://thessdreview....zation-guide-2/I woudn't turn off the page file though, just move it somewhere elseIf you followed NIckN's OS optimization guide, some of those things will be already done like disabling prefetch

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You can free up space by moving the page file to a different drive, and disabling hibernation:

I would suggest the pagefile is the one file you shouldn't move, given it contains RAM swapped out so any delay in reloading that RAM would directly impact the process owning the RAM (and the process could be FSX! :-)Cheers,- jahman.

I would suggest the pagefile is the one file you shouldn't move, given it contains RAM swapped out so any delay in reloading that RAM would directly impact the process owning the RAM (and the process could be FSX! :-)Cheers,- jahman.

Not if you have enough RAM, and if you don't, it's not going to make a difference since an SSD is still much slower than RAM.

Just one 120GB SSD? How do you get by? Run a small SSD for you OS ONLY and then RAID a couple 300GB raptors for programs.

Even though I spent all weekend installing everything, I think I will save up in a few weeks for a used 160gb Intel ssd, and install fsx onto that. And use the 120gb as my main drive. I guess 160gb will be enough

You will be running out of space there too!Get a 300 Gb Vrap, much better...

Even though I spent all weekend installing everything, I think I will save up in a few weeks for a used 160gb Intel ssd, and install fsx onto that. And use the 120gb as my main drive. I guess 160gb will be enough

I don't see where the problem is. If you move REX & GEX to the secondary HDD as suggested (it just replaces textures in FSX and doesn't need to be installed in the FSX drive/partition), follow the link I posted and remove the W7 SP1 backup files like I told you, you should have plenty space there

An SSD doesn't provide much benefit for FSX, this has been discussed time and time again.

An SSD doesn't provide much benefit for FSX, this has been discussed time and time again.

If you have lots of photoscenery, an SSD reduces FSX start-up times massively, by something like a factor of 10. This might be significant if you suffer from occasional or not so occasional CTDs as many do.You are correct though that SSDs offer no benefit once FSX is up-and-running.Cheers,- jahman.

Maybe it's just my system, but at a complex airport, say FSDT Chicago, from the time I click "fly now" to the time I'm sitting there at the gate, ready to rock is about 30-45 seconds. That's not bad if you ask me. My FSX drive is a RAID 0 setup, but just standard 7200rpm drives. Therein lies another topic. Higher RPM drives improve seek times drastically, but when FSX has a few giant files to load instead of many small ones, I bet the real world FSX performance jump isn't as big as you'd see with some other programs.

HDD will start loosing perf. past 50% of it's capacity as for 90% for an SSD.