February 5, 20188 yr My 250 gig SSD is running out of space. Only P3D V4 is installed on it. Can i get a larger SSD and copy my P3D over to it and name it the same letter... IE: my P3D drive is G. Thank You, Robert McDuff
February 5, 20188 yr Moderator Yes - as long as you keep the same drive letter, you are ok. Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
February 5, 20188 yr The drive NAME may need to be the same too if you have named the current drive something special. The entire drive PATH will need to be the same as the current one, and the path includes the drive's name. Rick Ryan
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February 5, 20188 yr 2 hours ago, FalconAF said: The drive NAME may need to be the same too if you have named the current drive something special. The entire drive PATH will need to be the same as the current one, and the path includes the drive's name. I am not sure that is the case... the drive name is of no consequence to Windows file addressing as best I know.. Bert
February 6, 20188 yr Author What???? lol, n99wb, my drive is 250, and the only thing i have on it is P3D v4.1 and i only have 19GB left!!. I wonder if I can install some sceneries on other drives
February 6, 20188 yr 4 hours ago, Dutch1 said: What???? lol, n99wb, my drive is 250, and the only thing i have on it is P3D v4.1 and i only have 19GB left!!. I wonder if I can install some sceneries on other drives BTW what is the recommendation for leaving free space on a SSD (before getting a performance hit) ? % wise Thanks, Shom Shom MSFS2024 running on Win 11, 4K screen, Z790 AORUS ELITE AX-W, i9-14900K, MSI 3080Ti, Corsair 2x32GB 6000 MHz, 1+2TB M.2 NVMEs
February 6, 20188 yr Commercial Member I have heard with SSD's no % a space is required like a mechanical drive. I see prices are pretty good for a 512GB. $139USD at Best Buy. 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.
February 6, 20188 yr 1 hour ago, Shomron said: BTW what is the recommendation for leaving free space on a SSD (before getting a performance hit) ? % wise Thanks, Shom It depends on the SSD. Some (like my older Intels) carry extra flash memory used to facilitate wear levelling in the background, and thus don't need any free space out of the user-accessible blocks. Others need some...maybe 5-10% so that swaps associated with wear-levelling can be done. @Dutch1--yes, you can install many sceneries on a different drive. I have my P3D4 install spread across a pair of 1 TB Samsung 850Pro SSDs. There are some that won't install that way but can be moved if you know what you're doing, and a few that are best left in their default locations on the P3D drive. Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
February 6, 20188 yr There is a facility in Windows 10 called something like - Storage Pools. With it you can put multiple hard drives together in a pool and Windows treats the pool as a single drive with just a single access letter. I had your problem recently so I bought a new SSD and made a pool of my current FlightSim SSD and the new one. Because I am ultra cautious I backed up my original G Drive (FlightSim) to an external drive before creating the pool. Drives do not have to be the same capacity or even type. There are also several types of pool you can create. The help information is good and of course you can search the internet fot guides. After creating the pool and giving it letter G I restored the data from my backup. Window manages where data is physically stored. The other thing worth noting is that additional drives can be added to a pool without the need to back up the existing data. If you have room physically for an extra drive this may be an option for you. Regards Trevor
February 7, 20188 yr On 06/02/2018 at 4:40 PM, GB014934 said: I had your problem recently so I bought a new SSD and made a pool of my current FlightSim SSD and the new one. I'd be wary of software solutions to this sort of capacity problem. If you've got to buy a new SSD anyway, just clone your old drive onto it and then format your old SSD as an extra, blank drive. It's safer (and easier) to spread add-ons onto other drives than to trust a piece of software to keep them safe on one virtual drive. i7-14700k | Asus ROG STRIX Z790-F Gaming WIFI | 32GB DDR5 RAM | MSI RTX 4080 Super | WD Black SN850X 1TB & 2TB | Corsair HX1000i ATX3.0 | MSI MAG401QR 40" monitor | Win 11 Pro 64-bit | Meta Quest 3
February 8, 20188 yr On 2/5/2018 at 3:07 PM, Bert Pieke said: I am not sure that is the case... the drive name is of no consequence to Windows file addressing as best I know.. That's why I said "...MAY need to be the same too....". It can depend on the users flightsim configuration. With a lot of other addons that may ALSO be installed outside of the sim itself, a complete path name including the drive name "may" be needed or the other addons "may not" work anymore. Really...the OP said he was going to "copy my P3D over to it and name it the same letter...". That "may" work...or it "may" not. If you are going to copy an entire hard drive to another new drive, it just makes sense to ensure the drive is NAMED the same as the old one too. Windows may...or may not...care. But that doesn't mean a bunch of other applications on your computer may not care if they depend on linking to a FULL drive name path (drive name AND drive letter). And it can also prevent having obsolete entries in your Windows Registry after the copy too. Just sayin'. Wasn't criticizing anyone. Rick Ryan
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