February 5, 20215 yr I currently have FSX SE. I have that and some add-ons which is currently three fourth full on the C Drive. The D Drive has about one fifth full. The E Drive is recovery. Then it's the DVD, and lastly the H Drive. I plan on eventually adding PREPARED and it's add-ons also. I have a ton off add-ons. My question is what is the best place to put both sims?
February 5, 20215 yr Without knowing how big and what type of drives these other drives (C D and H) are, it's difficult to answer. Generally, have the OS (Windows) on the C drive and the sims on another (D?). If you have another drive (H?), then you could put some addons on that but there's not much advantage in doing so. Hope this helps...
February 5, 20215 yr It really depends upon the type and size of the drive. I, too, prefer the OS to be on the C drive and my sims and other programs to be on a separate drive. Backup is on an external drive. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
February 5, 20215 yr You don't say if the drives are HDDs or SSDs. With HDDs, there's some advantage to keeping the OS on a separate drive from the sim, so that routine OS housekeeping doesn't keep thrashing the drive, moving the heads away from the sectors where the sim resides. With SSDs it really doesn't make a lot of difference, at least in terms of performance. P3D's xml add-on structure supports placing add-ons on drives other than the one where P3D is installed. So if the drive it's on approaches too full, you can install new add-ons (or move existing ones) to a different 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
February 6, 20215 yr Author My C Drive is 80.2 GB free of 475 GB. My D Drive is 1.56 TB free of 1.80 TB. My E Drive is Recovery, that's 1.66 GB free of 14.0 GB. My F Drive is DVD RW. My H Drive is 402 GB free of 1.36 TB If this were your set up where would you put PREPARED and it's add-ons Where would you put the FSX SE and it's add-ons. Like I said earlier there's a ton of scenery and planes..
February 6, 20215 yr Author I forgot to mention they are SSD. The ton of add-ons are yet to be installed. Edited February 6, 20215 yr by jetsmell tp add
February 7, 20215 yr Since they are all SSD there is really no advantage to one drive over another as far as performance. But looking at the free space I would say the only choice is "D" for both sims. Intel 10700K @ 5.1Ghz, Asus Hero Maximus motherboard, Noctua NH-U12A cooler, Corsair Vengeance Pro 32GB 3200 MHz RAM, RTX 2060 Super GPU, Cooler Master HAF 932 Tower, Thermaltake 1000W Toughpower PSU, Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit, 100TB of disk storage. Klaatu barada nickto.
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