FSX-SE Which Drive to use?

[jetsmell 45]

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?

[iwebber 207]

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...

[stans 703]

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.

[Bob Scott 7,721]

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.

[jetsmell 45]

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..

[jetsmell 45]

I forgot to mention they are SSD. The ton of add-ons are yet to be installed.

Edited February 6, 2021 by jetsmell
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[W2DR 1,860]

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.