FSX 119 gb P3Dv3 130gb both look like growing with all the Christmas specials now appearing.

188 GB = FSX folder 78 GB + Photoscenery 77 GB + Global terrain mesh 16 GB + REX4TDSC 17 GB

 

I was thinking of uninstalling some aircraft I don't use any more but I don't think it'll make much difference since it turns out bulk of it is area scenery

677 GB. I knew I had a lot, but didn't realize it is this much.

 

Yes, I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the total size, gigs of memory, I have been collecting scenery for years, I scan AVSIM and flightsim.com for freeware sceneries by "region", so this spring for instance I build a huge library of Venezuela and with FTX Global I have some great scenery to fly around in that is new to me.

 

I have a 2 TERA dedicated HD not SSD for FSX and I also have the entire thing mirrored onto another HD just in case I have a HD failure.  I have too much invested to loose my install.

 

I have only about half of my massive scenery build actually activated at any one time, because there is a lot of photoscenery like the massive Italy and Spain freeware versions that are available.

 

The only issue I have is that by adding all this volume, FSX takes a long time to load up.

 

cheers

Bryan

FS2004 was around 300GB,  FSX was around 1TB.  Now with P3D I am in the multiple TB range.  With my own Photoreal scenery of the USA I will be at 12TB just with that. 

FSX folder = 268 GB

 

MegaSceneryEarth Folder = 991 GB

 

MegaSceneryX Folder = 18.5 GB

 

FlightBeam Folder = 1.47 GB

 

Quite a few other payware scenery packs i.e.  FSDreamTeam , Orbx, Aerosoft Mega Airports,

Yeah.. My P3D is over 600GB....

About 200 GB of FSX in my 1TB internal hard drive, mostly Orbx and photoscenery stuff; and about 2TB in my 3TB external hard drive, which is high def. photoscenery of the entire U.S.  

 

I only turn on what I need in the scenery library.  This system is dedicated to FSX only, nothing else.  It all works smoothly, crashes (of the computer type) being very rare.

Incredible sizes. How does one maintain a drive containing an FSX folder with more than 100 GB?  Don't you have to defragged these at least weekly for optimal FSX performance? What do you do?  Do you even bother making a backup?

Defragging is only required when you do big installations, at other times not much changes (i.e. to get file fragmentation you must be writing/updating files). Windows 7 et al automatically defragment anyway.

As mentioned, my system is operating on Windows 7 and it automatically defrags every 7 days.  Windows also automatically creates system "restore" points.  If I screw something up, I can reset/restore the system to what it was at a point in the past. This is pretty neat, being able to fix a screw-up by going back into the past before the mistake was made.  I've done this a few times, and it worked.  Regarding my 2 TB of photoscenery, I have it copied onto 2 separate 3 TB hard drives in order to have a backup.

FSX 68Gb, Addon scenery folder 554Gb (shared with P3D).

86 Gigs + whatever Orbx SCA will ad.   :wink: