The amount of scenery I have in V4.1 is getting very, very large. Have any of you had success, hopefully with no loss of performance, installing some scenery to an external SSD?

 

Why not move your downloaded files and installers to an external SSD from the Windows Download directory instead?  This may free up a significant amount of space and avoid the speed bottleneck that you will suffer with an external drive.

I agree with you, and I already do that, but all this new delicious scenery that keeps coming out keeps adding up, that coupled with all the ORBX stuff...whew, the drive gets packed fast! I'll just have to start dropping a few things and making some hard choices I guess.

It shouldn't cause any problems. There might be a bit more overhead when using an external drive, but it shouldn't be significant. Of course it would be better to move old downloads, pictures and other data to the external drive and use the internal one for all applications, games, sims etc.

I am using 2 x 1TB SSD's in External RAID 0 on a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Enclosure to hold both the Sim and All the scenery too  -  no impact on loading times or stutters / blurries.  I am well pleased with this setup.  My 4 Bay USB 3.1 Gen 2 Enclosure arrived this morning which will also be populated with all SSD's and I am hoping to have all my Sims, including R/C Aircraft / Helicopter / Drones on this device alongside P3D V3, FSX SE and more buckets of scenery too.  Here's hoping.  Regards.

M.