Hi Guys,

 

I just finished building my first computer (especially for FSX). I bought a 1 TB Caviar Black drive. Is there any advantage of partitioning this drive? What do most of you guys do?

 

I may later buy an SSD just for FSX, but that is a ways into the future.

 

Thanks

Have one partition only for Windows. Try to get a large SSD for FSX.

 

SSD prices are coming down by the day and a 256GB SSD is now mostly affordable for most.

If I don't get the SSD, some advice please on if I should partition the WD Caviar Black HD?

 

If I was to get the SSD, would you recommend putting both Windows 7 and FSX on it? Or just putting FSX on it?

If I was to get the SSD, would you recommend putting both Windows 7 and FSX on it? Or just putting FSX on it?

 

FSX on SSD

 

Win7 on HDD

If I don't get the SSD, some advice please on if I should partition the WD Caviar Black HD?

 

If I was to get the SSD, would you recommend putting both Windows 7 and FSX on it? Or just putting FSX on it?

 

If you do not get an SSD, do not partition the WD HD and try to spend a few extra dollars and get a dedicated HD for FSX.

Thanks Ben for your quick responses. Just one more question. What is the down side of putting both FSX and Windows 7 on the same SSD? There is room for both, but there must be some reason for not putting them both on the same SSD.