Hmmm - I have been looking at my 1TB drive considering a migration to SSD for better loading times. I now have close to 500 GB filled with UTX, GEX, FTX AU, NA, NZ (not yet England), mesh, airports and numerous planes - and I use this machine only for FSX and I store everything I purchase on two separate drives, not the working drive.. So I would look for a 1TB drive.

Cheers.

Keep at least 1/2 of your drive free after an FSX / OS install and addons. I'm at 140ghz with all addons (many ORBX) but only a few planes. Cheers jja

I'm running FSX off a 64 GB SSD... it all depends on how much stuff you end up installing, but a 128GB SSD should work nicely IMHO.. You can always offload scenery to your HDD to save space.

My FSX folder is 310GB, largely because of FSAltitude photoreal products that I have installed.

Wow, what am I missing? Mine is only at 58.1GB.

On my server i have 8 1TB drives and 2 SSD and all my FSX related files are about 280 gbs , so i figure you will be ok with a 500GB drive or similar.....

Hmmm... It might be me, but I'm getting close to 500gig already and I think it will expand further in the next year. OrbX, FSGlobal Ultimate, FranceVFR, it's all taking up massive amounts of space.

 

 

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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their help and opinions.

 

In the end, I think I'll go with the additional 512 GB SSD to match the one I've got now. As it stands now, my current single 512 GB SSD has 317 GB remaining. I've got just the vanilla FSX install, the OS, other games, and other stuff. So...reading through some of your examples..based on just the FSX Add-Ons I've already purchased but not installed, and some of the numbers you guys are throwing out...it looks like I may well end up adding somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-200GB. If I take another 200 from 317, that would leave me with 117. The more space I leave on that SSD, the better its going to wear level and the faster and healthier it will remain so I've ordered that 2nd SSD to be safe.

 

Then, before I get anything else installed into FSX...when I get the new SSD installed I'll uninstall FSX, install it on the new SSD in a d:\FSX or some such (Right now, its installed in the default c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X - or whatever the full default path is). This will give me a chance to put FSX in a d:\FSX folder like you guys recommended, and have all of my AddOns and FSX stuff over there in one place.

 

As a side note, it'll also make my backups easier. Having FSX installed on my C drive ends up pulling that into my backup images.

 

Its a never-ending battle. Once you get that computer case closed and you think you're done for a while....there you are back in it again tinkering or adding something else. Nature of the beast I suppose