February 27, 201511 yr This is a bit of a follow up from a previous question and talking to a friend and Appliance on here, I'm going to go smaller on my ssd and have pretty much only core stuff on the ssd ie OS ,virus stuff and possibly my ai aircraft This means that i'm going to put my flightsims on the hybrid drive, 2tb seagate 7200rpm So my thoughts on this maybe along the lines of having 3 or 4 partitions having one for fsx one for P3d and 1 or 2 for xplane and DCS would this be a good way to go and I can keep everything nice and separate and organised, or would having these partitions make the 8gb ssd part of the hybrid more or less useless any thoughts on this or advice before I pull the trigger and buy Thanks Pete Little
March 2, 201511 yr Hopefully you dont have any virus stuff on your SSD. J/K. LOL. I would still recommend at least a small 120GB SSD for FSX/P3D. Just takes too long to load scenery on a standard drive. My 2 cents. FYI- If you do however install all on one drive and the sizes need to be adjusted after you install everything. Go to My Computer right click and select Manage, then select "Disk Management" and you can add/delete or adjust partition sizes within the O.S. Flight Simulator's - Prepar3d V5/MSFS | Operating System - WIN 11 | Main Board - GIGABYTE X870E Aorus Elite WIFI7 | CPU - AMD 9800X3D | RAM - CORSAIR 64GB 6600Mhz | Video Card - EVGA RTX3090 FTW3 Ultra | Monitor - DELL 38" Ultrawide | Case - CORSAIR 750D Full Tower | CPU Cooling - CORSAIR H170i Elite LCD 420mm Push/Pull | Power Supply - EVGA 1000 G+ | Sound System - Definitive Technology ProMonitor 600 w/subwoofer
March 3, 201511 yr Author Ah thanks for that Turboken I didn't know you could do that,So from what your saying I could start with just the 2tb drive and decide at a later date if I wanted to add a couple of partitions for separate sims if I feel thew need Things have changed slightly from my original post in that I've gone for a 512gb ssd so will put at least 1 sim on that drive,just not decided if it will be p3d or fsx Thanks for the advice tho rgds Pete Little
March 4, 201511 yr Thats correct. So you could use the 512 SSD split in half using 256 for the OS and 256 for P3D. Then when you add the 2TB drive you can partition then format that drive as another 256 for FSX and the rest of the space as Backup. Flight Simulator's - Prepar3d V5/MSFS | Operating System - WIN 11 | Main Board - GIGABYTE X870E Aorus Elite WIFI7 | CPU - AMD 9800X3D | RAM - CORSAIR 64GB 6600Mhz | Video Card - EVGA RTX3090 FTW3 Ultra | Monitor - DELL 38" Ultrawide | Case - CORSAIR 750D Full Tower | CPU Cooling - CORSAIR H170i Elite LCD 420mm Push/Pull | Power Supply - EVGA 1000 G+ | Sound System - Definitive Technology ProMonitor 600 w/subwoofer
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