10 minutes ago, united001 said:

If you look at the system requirements at the Microsoft store for this new release, it says nothing about how much hard disk space you need to install like free standing games and apps do. Why might that be? Maybe because this is now an app and behaves more like a Steam installed product? I'm not sure only that after my pre-order, I downloaded what was avail. and there were no massively large downloads to my machine, and yet I have an icon on my desktop waiting for August 17. I wonder that purchasing extra hard disk or SSD space will even be needed? Does this new flight sim exist mostly in a cloud and we download only what we need when we play? I don't know, I'm just asking.

Randy J

Yes, the sim will be downloaded and run from your hard drive (most Steam games work this way too). However, the full download won't be available until closer to release.

50 minutes ago, united001 said:

I wonder that purchasing extra hard disk or SSD space will even be needed? Does this new flight sim exist mostly in a cloud and we download only what we need when we play? I don't know, I'm just asking.

Here's the thing, let's say you mostly fly in the same areas and cache everything high detail and don't want to re-download every time then it's going to take some space. Just how much space and how it does the cache is the question.

I currently have a 1TB m.2 drive, but I'm also planning on buying a sabrent Rocket 2tb m.2 PCI 4.0 drive, and initially set aside that for FS2020 

Edited July 13, 20205 yr by hanhamreds

I also bought a 1TB M.2 SSD (Samsung 970 Evo Plus) to be prepared. But can anybody confirm that it will be possible to install MSFS2020 (or at least the majority of the data) on another drive than C:?!

Thanks!  

I'd probably just buy a 1TB SSD now gents.  They're really coming down in price

12 hours ago, FPStewy said:

So my question is that are you going to dedicate a Drive for MSFS2020 ? and how much.

Yes: 10TB (Seagate EXOS X10) for scenery

Edited July 14, 20205 yr by Emerson67

3 hours ago, LarsA said:

I also bought a 1TB M.2 SSD (Samsung 970 Evo Plus) to be prepared. But can anybody confirm that it will be possible to install MSFS2020 (or at least the majority of the data) on another drive than C:?!

Thanks!  

It should be possible, but it is not as straightforward and it needs to be done via Windows settings I believe.

Please check this thread: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/install-microsoft-store-game-in-specific-folder/1dc2e259-8b08-4b6c-a8c3-5f8cd9302917

I have a 256 SSD dedicated to (former P3D) FS20 - i will see how it works. Candidate for a replacement with 500 or 1000.

5 hours ago, GCBraun said:

It should be possible, but it is not as straightforward and it needs to be done via Windows settings I believe.

Please check this thread: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/install-microsoft-store-game-in-specific-folder/1dc2e259-8b08-4b6c-a8c3-5f8cd9302917

That's, what I needed - thanks! 

11 hours ago, LarsA said:

But can anybody confirm that it will be possible to install MSFS2020 (or at least the majority of the data) on another drive than C:?!

I install the initial download on C drive through windows store, go to apps and features to relocate it to my non C nvme drive.  Start the application and it wants to download the majority of the content.  You can specify the location of this as well. 

I have 2x500GB pcie-4 x4 in RAID 0 (1TB total space) allocated for MSFS and rolling cache.  If I decide to undo the RAID, I dedicate the entire 2nd 500GB for rolling cache.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to have one HD running the program, and a second HD for scenery downloading and caching?

 

I'm going to install to a 500MB SSD I have dedicated to flight simming.  Going to delete everything P3D and FSX related and start from a clean empty slate.  If I need more space for the scenery cache or such then I'll move it all to my 2TB SSD instead.

Best Buy (USA) or Amazon has the samsung 1TB QVO for cheap 

About 110 USD

The 4k random reads are a bit slower than Evo but other than that it's basically the same.

47 minutes ago, dobee51 said:

Wouldn't it be more efficient to have one HD running the program, and a second HD for scenery downloading and caching?

I would think so, but with my config, I get to dedicate for rolling cache what is left after the MSFS install (more than 500GB).  I'm hoping because my read/write speeds are so high that this wont create any FPS loss.    

I think 1Tb or even 500Gb should be enough, especially because we won't need photo realistic scenery or regions.