Hi,

 

I have my 7 year old Seagate 320GB HD still running today with OS and FS9. My current partition is 45GB for Win7 x64 and the rest are pure storage including my FS9 and files.

Since this hard drive is getting old already, I just don't want this drive go off soon. I have to prepare some new hard drive sooner.

 

So right now I'm looking for a HDD with my targeted budget around PHP

 5,900 (Around $143) and these will be the drive that I'm looking.

 

Drive 1 (500GB WD Black WD5003AZEZ) for FSX/FS9 and other games. Priced at $75

Drive 2 (1TB WD Green WD10EARX) for dedicated storage. Priced at $67

 

My question is.. Should I make drive 1 dedicated only for FS9/FSX or partition each for OS and FSX/FS9 and one for the other games/software.

 

But I really like to have a dedicated SSD just for OS but then SSD prices in my country is quite expensive. A 120GB SSD Samsung 840 costs $115 here in Philippines. :(

What are the prices for the WD veloci-raptor?

 

You will want to put your os and flight sims, on two separate drives if you can. This is because each drive only has to handle the requests from one program.

Sadly, WD Velociraptor is such a rare item here.

I did find one WD Velociraptor 300GB WD3000HLHX but it cost around $164.

 

So it's highly suggested to put FSX/FS9/Xplane on a dedicated HDD along side with other games/apps but doing a partition it would make difference?

 

I'm thinking that also buying WD 500GB Caviar Black or Blue. What would be the recommended sizes for partition for FSX/FS9/Xplane? Considering that the actual size HDD of a 500GB HDD would be at 465 GB only.

 

Also hopefully, if I can stretch my budget I might get the 1TB WD Caviar Black. 

A partition would help with the windows security issues, but would have no performance boost. FSX and windows are still trying to get different things from the same physical drive, it is a matter of data transfer, and not something that can be overcome with partitions. 

Well, I agree with you on that regarding Windows security issues.

 

But its also said that in some forums partitions could be useful particularly during defrag of the HDD since it lessens the time to defrag and allow the dedicated partition to be assigned in the outer platter of the HDD because of lower seek time perhaps, not to mention if done with WD Caviar Black that would be a boost for FSX/FS9 i guess.