I have a 120 GB SSD and a 2.0 TB 2nd drive. EVERYHING is on the SSD. Wndows 7 64, FSX, all my addon scenery and planes, REX, Fly Tampa, Track IR5. I deleted most files that were useless, but I only have 36 GB left. Is that enough to sustain me for ever? What do I do now? I am not too computer savy, but can I move Windows to the 2.0 TB drive? Will that mess up FSX? Or do I move FSX and all the scenery/planes to the 2.0 TB? Or is 36 GB enough for a few more planes and a few more scenery addons?The computer is 5 months old. 990X CPU, 590 Video card and it really kicks a@@ with FSX.

I have a 120 GB SSD and a 2.0 TB 2nd drive. EVERYHING is on the SSD. Wndows 7 64, FSX, all my addon scenery and planes, REX, Fly Tampa, Track IR5. I deleted most files that were useless, but I only have 36 GB left. Is that enough to sustain me for ever? What do I do now? I am not too computer savy, but can I move Windows to the 2.0 TB drive? Will that mess up FSX? Or do I move FSX and all the scenery/planes to the 2.0 TB? Or is 36 GB enough for a few more planes and a few more scenery addons?The computer is 5 months old. 990X CPU, 590 Video card and it really kicks a@@ with FSX.

If you want, I can show you how to properly move FSX to the other drive with some CMD commands and cut and paste.

Pretty much defeats the reason for a SSD then.

PaulSSD's will operate pretty much at 'top' speed until you get over 90% full - they need like any disk around 5 +% of free disk space in order to perform the various normal disk related tasks, but the actual amount data they contain doesn't seem to slow them down (up to that figure). You'll probably be pretty safe until you start exceeding around 110GB if Windows is showing the disk size as something around 119GB.PeterH

OK than I just won't add much to FSX. I guess I can shed some files over tothe 2 tb drive like the PDF's of the PDMG manuals and all the downloaded liveries. Once the liveries are installed I can move them out of the download file on the SSD and transfer them over to the other HD - correct?

Disable HybernationDisable drive indexingMove the page file to another driveMove libraries (Videos, Pictures, Documents...) to another drivePerform a disk clean-upDelete the Temp folder, move it to another drive (editing the %temp% enviroment variable)Search for crash dumps and delete them (*.dmp)

Edited January 5, 201214 yr by dazz

I'm in your situation. I don't have anything but Wn 7 and FSX on C: but many programs insist in sticking stuff into C:users and waste space. I did install AntarcticaX and my AI aircraft on my HDD. I figure eventually to get a second SSD and then problems over.scott s..

I'm in your situation. I don't have anything but Wn 7 and FSX on C: but many programs insist in sticking stuff into C:users and waste space.

if you have a spare sata drive use that to install REX, GEX, unwrapped installed files etc It keeps them off your SSD and as they are only run when you install textures etc then the speed of the loading doesnt matter

OK, I will try to move all files over to the 2TB drive. But does stuff like REX and the scenery addons need to be on the same drive as FSX (the 120 GB SSD). Don't they reside in the scenery addon folder of FSX? I am not to computer savy, so I need a dummy's explaination of any fixes.Thank You

scenery can reside anywhere, you just need to have the path to it set in scenery.cfg. There are two lines, local= and remote=. You can use either one. For local the scenery gets loaded as needed. For remote the files first are copied into a cache folder in your user %appdata% (there is an option to empty cache on exit which you would probably use in this scenario). It might be worth playing with this cache option in an SSD/HDD environment. scott s..