December 29, 20205 yr Hello, I am eagerly waiting for my new PC to ship later this month. Due to the budget, I only got 1 tb SSD NVme 2 drive. I know the MB can handle 2, so if I want to add one, should I leave windows on the current HD and then install MSFS on the other? Should it be just like the first SSD? Thanks for any help!
December 30, 20205 yr Some useful info here Lyn the trucker FSX - XP11 - MSFS Ryzen 5900x - Asus X570 VIII Hero - RTX 4090 - G.SKILL Trident 32 GB DDR4 - WD SN750 M2 1TB + Samsung SSD 250GB - HP Reverb G2 - Win 10/64
December 30, 20205 yr 17 hours ago, Richard Jacks said: I am eagerly waiting for my new PC to ship later this month. Due to the budget, I only got 1 tb SSD NVme 2 drive. I know the MB can handle 2, so if I want to add one, should I leave windows on the current HD and then install MSFS on the other? Should it be just like the first SSD? Thanks for any help! You can install both on the boot drive and move the sim to a second drive later if you want. I have Win 10 and MSFS both installed on my 1 TB SLC Samsung Pro SSD (because MSFS does a fair bit of drive thrashing with the streaming scenery cache and SLC drives are far more resistant to write wear), and I have P3Dv4 and v5 on separate 2TB MLC SSDs. In the HDD days, there was some benefit to keeping your OS and sim on separate drives--with random-access solid state devices that thinking is now obsolete. A second SSD does not have to be the same size or type as the boot drive. 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
December 31, 20205 yr Author 19 hours ago, w6kd said: You can install both on the boot drive and move the sim to a second drive later if you want. I have Win 10 and MSFS both installed on my 1 TB SLC Samsung Pro SSD (because MSFS does a fair bit of drive thrashing with the streaming scenery cache and SLC drives are far more resistant to write wear), and I have P3Dv4 and v5 on separate 2TB MLC SSDs. In the HDD days, there was some benefit to keeping your OS and sim on separate drives--with random-access solid state devices that thinking is now obsolete. A second SSD does not have to be the same size or type as the boot drive. Very helpful, thanks!
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