My computer is about 6 years old and my hard drive is getting full. The puter still works fine and I don't want to replace it at this point so I'm thinking i should just add a second internal hard drive.

 

Now the reason I am asking is because I'm an idiot with computers and really have no experiance building them or switching hardware etc. I did look on You-tube and it appears to be easy as long as you have the room, cables etc. So assuming I do:

 

1) what would be a good Hard Drive to get these days? If it matters the current one is a Seagate 320 GB SATA 16MB 7200RPM 3 GB NCQ. I'm running windows XP home.

 

2) Is there any drawbacks to having a second hard drive that I might not be aware of? Will all the FSX add-ons still pretty much self install like they do now, or will it depend on which hard drive I have it all on? Right now it's drive "C".

 

3) The alternative to me doing this would be for me to take it to a computer store and have them replace this older hard drive with a new one and move/switch everything over to the new hard drive. I don't know the pros or cons of that other than the store would want me drop of the tower and leave it for a day or two, but my wife needs it for work stuff.

 

Thank you.      

I see you've mentioned hard drive, but have you taken a look at an SSD?

 

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I'd pick up an SSD, move Windows onto it (along with other applications), and leave the 320GB as FSX+Data. (No programs except FSX.)

 

If not, look at the Seagate Barracuda line of hard drives. 7200RPM and high capacity, good stuff!

 

If you leave FSX where it is (original drive), and just add another hard drive, you won't have a problem, addons will self-install. 

No I have not looked at the SSD, but I will now. Thanks for all the info. 

About the best deal is the Samsung Evo's.

 

Otherwise Samsung's 840 Pro is the best drive out there.

 

I'd put FSX on the SSD.