January 2, 201610 yr Look's like I have to do a system recovery. Since I'm starting clean I'm wondering which drive to use for FSX. I have the C Drive, E Drive 250 gb ,The F drive which is a WD External hard drive 1tb. I'm thinking using the F Drive exclusively for FSX and maybe putting everything Mega Earth on the E drive. I have a ton of payware scenery and aircraft. If God forbid , I have to do a recovery down the road, putting most of the FSX downloads on the external hard drive could be an extra bonus.
January 2, 201610 yr You'll want to use the fastest drive as FSX is constantly loading scenery while you fly. That would rule out the external drive as USB has a much slower transfer rate than SATA, which your internal drives likely use. In your case I would install the system on C: and FSX on E:, along with all your scenery. Then use F: for backup and storage, ie - all your downloads and install programs. EddieKABQ
January 2, 201610 yr I agree, FSX on the fastest drive and it is best if that is also the C: drive. External drive data transfer is usually far too slow for good FSX performance. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
January 2, 201610 yr Commercial Member For me that would be an SSD drive separate from the OS drive. Intel i9-12900KF, Asus Prime Z690-A MB, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM, (3) SK hynix M.2 SSD (2TB ea.), 16TB Seagate HDD, Gigabyte GeForce 5080 RTX, Corsair iCUE H70i AIO Liquid Cooler, UHD/Blu-ray Player/Burner (still have lots of CDs, DVDs!) Windows 10, (hold off for now on Win11), EVGA 1300W PSUNetgear 1Gbps modem & router, (3) 27" 1440 wrap-around displaysFull array of Bravo, Saitek and GoFlight hardware for the cockpit. Varjo and HP VR headsets for mixed reality.
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