So, while I am waiting for my computer to be rebuilt, I am looking for some suggestions on which add-ons go on what drive.

I will have a 500 GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. FSX & Windows 7. My thought is to put Win7 and FSX on the SSD (separate folders), then I have the add-ons: 
PMDG 737
PMDG 777
Majestic Q400
ORBX FTX Global
FSDT & FlightBeam airports
PFPX & TOPCAT
ASN 
vPilot
ACARS

So where do these add-ons go, the SSD or the HDD? Oh, and what do I do to make sure they all talk to each other?

I appreciate any experienced input! Thanks

Many add-ons install on the FSX volume.. so you may not have that much choice in the matter.

 

Why not start with everything on the SSD, and offload some scenery onto the HDD later, if space becomes a problem.

I will give that a try.  Thanks, Bert!

I have set mine up using junction link magic program

 

I have fsx on the SSD

 

Sim objects, Scenery and ORBX are on the 3TB Seagate hard drive. I have used up 2TB so far but ORBX and Photoscenery will do that to you :-)

What's the point of that? You want scenery and all FSX files on the SSD for fast loading... Even with a junction working type speed be slow as the HDD?

Ryan, no its not slow at all. I was a bit worried about my ORBX stuff but there is no difference between HDD and SSD when flying ORBX scenery

 

The really big difference is of course the boot up time being super fast.

Os and its related software on HDD, FSX and all add ons that install into it on SSD. This will give you the best performance.

Here is an in depth review of gameplay HDD vs SSD. Its a good read and here is the conclusion. I tend to agree with the author as I don't see any difference within FSX

 

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/12/10/hdd_vs_ssd_real_world_gaming_performance/5

 

The Bottom Line

 

 

We can definitively state that our gaming performance as shown prior on our HDDs is exactly the same under the SSDs; there is no difference in gameplay performance. All the feedback and suggestions that we should upgrade to SSDs because our HDDs were holding back gameplay performance and consistency were misplaced. We were not being held back. The actual consistency and smoothness under the SSD is the same as we experienced under our previous HDD; and that HDD was not exactly "new."

 

Consistency, framerate, gameplay performance, is exactly the same under our new SSDs. That said, the load times of actually getting into the games is greatly improved, and that alone helps us since we are loading in and out of games all day while testing. That's just a time saver. As stated, we are now running SSDs on our video card review systems, but as tested there are no gameplay performance differences because of it. The load time improvements though are very welcomed

Marketing ... ain't it wonderful?

 

As P.T. Barnum is alleged to have said 'There's a sucker born every minute.'

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SSD still totally worth it for the decreased load times.

 

I came from a 7200RPM HDD to windows 7 onto my " old" sata2 SSD. Power button to desktop with the start sound using HDD: 1.5 min

 

Using old SSD: 30 sec.

 

FSX HDD: 3 min

FSX SSD (gen3): 35 sec

 

Xp10 HDD: 3.5 min

Xp10 SSD (gen3): 1 min

 

BF4 HDD (load to a map in game): 4 min

BF4 SSD: 1.5 min

I have OS on SSD, FSX on a hybrid HD and scenery on a separate HDD. best combination of PC startup, FSX load and scenery performance