125GB total with 80GB on a 120GB SSD and 45GB of mesh data on my HDD. I used mklink as described above to move the mesh data off the SSD.

 

I can't believe how fast the SSD is filling up, I'm going to replace it with a 250GB one soon (probably one of the Samsung ones).

I own pretty much every payware add-on aircraft that ever get's released, and the majority (but not all!) payware sceneries ............... but............ I take a "unistall when not in use" approach to my FSX installation, so for example, although I own all of the Orbx regions, at present none are installed as I'm not currently flying them.  Same with other scenery areas and also at present I only have the AXE and Ants Airplnes P92 Eaglet aircraft installed at present.

 

FSX Directory size, using the above approach:    64.4GB.

 

:smile:

It is not about the size if You ask me, it is about the proper technique. Technique of storing the files. My FSX is 140 GB big. I keep it clean as much as practicable - that means no additional liveries (I do not need them inside the cockpit), no airports, which I am planning to visit in the foreseen future and so on.

i also have an 64 GB SSD for all the other stuff (TTS voices, Rise of Flight, OS...) and bigger HDD for backup, externalized to the cloud.

262GB, used to be way bigger when I still had all the sceneries I own installed all around the world, now I have mainly those installed that i happen to use at the moment. 

I didn't install ORBX sceneries in my fresh FSX setup cause they need a switch to activate but also they take lots of space on my SSD. If i do the method with mklink to move them to HDD, will it slow down the loading time of FSX?

I didn't install ORBX sceneries in my fresh FSX setup cause they need a switch to activate but also they take lots of space on my SSD. If i do the method with mklink to move them to HDD, will it slow down the loading time of FSX?

No slow down at all.

Wow how do people get such huge amounts? Mine is 100GB and I have FSGlobal mesh, Orbx England, REX, loads of NGX liveries, about 40 payware airports etc!

Wow how do people get such huge amounts? Mine is 100GB and I have FSGlobal mesh, Orbx England, REX, loads of NGX liveries, about 40 payware airports etc!

It may be cause some people maybe hiding something in FSX folder :lol:

1TB drive, filled with 500GB for FSX so far.

93.9gb  and rising every day

202 GB.

How is yours that big? Guessing you have lots of scenery installed? 

I have a 512GB SSD but running out off space soon, planning on getting a 900GB SSD disk after FTX Global comes out. My FSX install seem to never stop growing ^_^ And to tho OP, yeah you're attemt to make the topic title funny sure succeded, I had a good laugh :lol:

500GB SSD for P3D, 256GB for FSX, 2T in Velops for Add-ons.  About to buy another 2T for add-ons and ever expanding photoreal stuff.   Never ends.

 

Anybody using Blu-ray for back-ups/storage?  What with disks capable of holding 25GB per disk thinking this may be a good way to go.

 

Clutch

I moved ORBX folder to HDD and loading times slowed down about 1 min compared to SSD

I have used about 145 Gb on a 447 Gb SSD.  My operating systems and programs are on a separate 223 Gb SSD.  My Megascenery Earth is on another HDD (1Tb Velociraptor), but I'm rethinking this setup.