When FSX is running, accessing the drive is it mostly in the FSX FOLDER in(F) for example? Or does the accessing just as busy in ©? Using  an SSD drive for F or C, or BOTH? Any explanation is much appreciated.

Thanks.
Abe

Nobody knows?     hmmmm?     I'll try again. Thanks.

Your HDD or SSD where FSX and any add-on scenery is installed will be mostly accessed by FSX (for loading scenery/planes etc), but ofcourse Windows is still active with its services and drivers and such.

An SSD will only help a lot in decreasing loading times when starting FSX.

FSX itself + scenery will load itself into your RAM and run from there.

 

A couple of things:

Normally i would suggest installing Windows on an SSD and FSX on another drive (either an SSD or a HDD). SSD is preferred but also more expensive per GB.

 

You might want to use either a seperate drive for FSX, or put it -and the addon scenery- on a seperate partition. This way you won't need to defrag as much, because if you don't install and delete other stuff on this drive/partition, you won't get any fragmentation.

 

Also, set your Windows to use the pagefile (vitual memory) on a physical disk other than your FSX disk, so not just another partition. This is better on a SSD, because when it needs to access it, an SSD will be faster to swap to/from and the drive won't be used for both loading scenery and swapping to the pagefile.

 

I am not an expert, so you might want to Google it some more or search this forum (I bet there are more people with this question), but the above sounds best to me.