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[Richard Jacks 23]

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!

 

[lynthetrucker 3]

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[Bob Scott 7,716]

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.

[Richard Jacks 23]

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!