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Additional HDD space for MSFS

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Hello Guys, 

I have dedicated SSD NVMe 1Tb for the MSFS and addons. However the space available is shrinking. 

I am thinking about buying few HDD to put mainly the scenery on it. My aim is to keep MSFS SSD NVMe, but scenery like Airports/ORBX, etc. on new HDD drives and link it using Addon Linker for MSFS

My question is, will I notice a significant decrease in loading times in MSFS booting using these method? Or the booting times does not matter as long as the MSFS is installed on the SSD?

Thank you for your help.

Booting time will be the same because the OS will stay on the SSD... if you refer to MSFS startup time, it will certainly increase.

Don't buy a hard disk, buy at least a SATA SSD... even 4 TB are cheap now.

7800X3D | 2x32 GB DDR5-6000 CL32 | RTX 5080 | Alienware OLED 34" | 1 Gbps fiber 

16 minutes ago, ark4diusz said:

Hello Guys, 

I have dedicated SSD NVMe 1Tb for the MSFS and addons. However the space available is shrinking. 

I am thinking about buying few HDD to put mainly the scenery on it. My aim is to keep MSFS SSD NVMe, but scenery like Airports/ORBX, etc. on new HDD drives and link it using Addon Linker for MSFS

My question is, will I notice a significant decrease in loading times in MSFS booting using these method? Or the booting times does not matter as long as the MSFS is installed on the SSD?

Thank you for your help.

Hi,

I have a SSD 500 Gb disk for MSFS, but I have also an external Western Digital Black (10 Tb) Game Drive for the add-ons. 

I think the booting time is not affected by having the add-ons on another (non SSD) drive.

To manage what aircraft and scenery I want to fly I have installed MSFS Addon Linker and no problem.

Cheers.

Edited by John Fields

I read somewhere on the official forums that removing default aircraft that you don't use frees up a lot of disk space. 

Edited by gb09f

9800X3D | 5080 | 32GB | 2TB NVME | Dell Ultrasharp U3415W 34" | 3440 x 1440 60Hz

18 hours ago, gb09f said:

I read somewhere on the official forums that removing default aircraft that you don't use frees up a lot of disk space. 

Which then leads to MSFS loading them again at the next update.. not a good thing.. 🙂

Bert

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