SSD hard drive running low

[Dutch1]

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

[vgbaron]

Yes - as long as you keep the same drive letter, you are ok.

 

Vic

[FalconAF]

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.

[speedyTC]

Done this twice before with nary a hiccup (or hiccough if you prefer).

Cheers!

[Bert Pieke]

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..

[n99wb]

My 512 only uses 134Gig with Everything on it.

My P3D folder is only 25Gig.

[Dutch1]

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 

[Shomron]

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

 

[Clutch Cargo]

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.

[hillsboy]

Good question. At 20% free space I notice performance slowing down.

[Bob Scott]

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

 

[GB014934]

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.

 

[vortex681]

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.

[FalconAF]

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.