I currently have two SSD's with P3D v3 (Concorde exclusive) and P3D v4.  I have just purchased a 500MB M.2 drive and will install P3D v5 on this new drive.  Given that the M.2 is much faster I wonder if it is critical to move some data from the current SSD's over or can I just leave it and reference the location.  I am specifically thinking of ORBX, FS Global Mesh and My Traffic.  Everything else, airports and aircraft I will install directly on the new drive.  Your thoughts?

You won't notice any difference to be honest

OK good to know. I mainly purchased the M.2 for convenience of installation.  Last time I had all kinds of issues with connecting cables (or lack of them).

Mark,

If I may enquire what M2 SSD did you end up getting in the end? Was it a NMVe one or SATA?

Thx
Mark

I got the NMVe.  Samsung NVAND SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2.  500GB.

OK thanks for the info.

It makes some difference with loading times, in my experience, but not whilst flying.

Ideally, you want the OS on the fastest drive that you have. Get the whole system running faster and your sim will only benefit as well. The sim itself on the M.2, you'll get marginally faster load times.

I don't think I could stomach wiping all my drives and starting over with the OS on the M.2 drive.  I will have to live with the current setup.  The main reason I went with the M.2 was the convenience of the drive install, took 2 minutes and I didn't need and extra cables.

Don't wipe your drive you can clone your boot drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBSIZ3G1bwA&t=88s

Samsung provide free software to do this, you can clone any drive an old disc HD to an SSD, there loads of YouTube Vids on this.

On 5/27/2020 at 11:51 AM, MarkW said:

I don't think I could stomach wiping all my drives and starting over with the OS on the M.2 drive.  I will have to live with the current setup.  The main reason I went with the M.2 was the convenience of the drive install, took 2 minutes and I didn't need and extra cables.

I have in fact just done this myself in less than 30 mins download the Samsung software.

I have a portable M.2 NVME SSD Enclosure, and I used the USB 3 connector it also comes with a type C but I could not be bothered going to the back C connector but it only took 15 mins to copy on USB 3, the PC switches off after disconnect the power and swap the drive on to you MB M.2 slot, your old C drive is now blank and can be used for something else.

Cloning is the way to go. I previously also moved Windows 7 OS from a HDD to a SATA SSD and the free cloning software I used (think it was Todo at the time) did a good job.