Hi folks,Would you say it is recommendable to store large photoreal scenery files like GB VFR,USA Mega,etc on a secondary HD i.e. NOT the HD that FS is installed on ? Does anybody have experience with a setup like that ?Any reply highly appreciated !Jan

Yes, I have all of my add-on scenery on a second SCSI drive.George

I did that for awhile to see if there was any noticible difference... there wasn't so I went back to one disk. Unless you are running out of disk space for FS2004 and all your add-ons, I wouldn't bother.

I have all my addon scenery on a separate drive/partition , in this case on D:/FS Scenery.I can't honestly say that it makes much difference to performance - any gains are marginal, but the most important aspect of this is that it makes the whole addon scenery thing much easier to manage in the event of problems.EG: Some time ago I downloaded and installed some USA mesh files from a certain designer which turned out to be badly flawed - produced all sorts of odd effects .Getting rid of it entirely was easy as it was all kept within it's own folder on D.Dave

Agree with Dave. I keep a mirror install of my current FS installation on a spare hard drive, but use that addon scenery folder to feed my main FS installation. Dont see any performance benefit (although when I had VFR Photographic Scenery installed I did see FS load quicker that way) but it leaves the main FS folder cleaner for troubleshooting.Allcott

Thanks much for the replies guys, i know enough now, just was curious if any "NO! Don't do that!" replies would turn up. :)I have a new system (Athlon 64/3400+HT,Gf6800Ultra,1GigDDR.Coming from an ancient Athlon 1.3 i'm flying around with my jaw constantly dropped on the cockpit floor! :-eek ), and moved the HD from my old system (containing my whole FS kit'n caboodle) to my new system. Rather then change all the paths to the add on scenery files i moved them to the C drive ( set up a 'ghost' FS folder on C which contains only these add on scenery files )Seems to work fine but i was interested nontheless in your experience with seperate drives for scenery files.Thanks much again!Jan