October 28, 20232 yr I am getting a new computer next week. It will have two 2Tb SSD's. Should I partition in order to accomodate Win 11 and MSFS and all the ancilliary programmes and scenery. Any advice would be much appreciated. Redhead Bob Palmer
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October 28, 20232 yr You should not partition your drives IMO. It has no speed benefit and you risk having to repatriation later when you run out of space one 1 partition. I recommend having 1 ssd for MSFS and the other for Windows and other stuff. After 3 years my MSFS is over 1.5 TB and still growing. Flightsim rig: CPU: AMD 5900x | Mobo: MSI X570 MEG Unify | RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z Neo | GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3090 | Storage: M.2 (2 & 4 TB) | PSU: Corsair RM850x | Case: Fractal Define 7 XL Display: Acer Predator x34 3440x1440 | Speakers: Logitech Z906 Controllers: Fulcrum One Yoke | MFG Crosswind v2 pedals | Honeycomb Bravo Quadrant |Thrustmaster TCA Quadrant | Stream Deck XL & Plus | TrackIR 5 Tobii eye tracking
October 28, 20232 yr Also you lose some space when you partition you will not have two 1TB drives. Raymond Fry.
October 29, 20232 yr 20 hours ago, G-RFRY said: Also you lose some space when you partition you will not have two 1TB drives. Well you don't have a 1TB to start with! Manufacturers use a different method to windows and other programs to state capacity. My 1 TB disk is stated as 947GB. Intel i7 6700K @4.3. 32gb Gskill 3200 RAM. Z170x Gigabyte m/b. 28" LG HD monitor. Win 10 Home. 500g Samsung 960 as Windows home. 1 Gb Mushkin SSD for P3D. GTX 1080 8gb.
October 29, 20232 yr With hard discs, it made sense to partition a drive, placing "C" as the first partition. This put the C drive on the outer edge of the disc, where the read/write speeds were fastest and eliminated having parts of the OS scattered over the platter. There are no spinning discs or any moving parts in a SSD, all portions of the drive read/write at pretty much the exact same rates. What slows a SSD is a lack of capacity. When a SSD's are more than 70% full, they begin to slow because it becomes more difficult to find empty blocks of suitable size for the data or files that the drive is attempting to save. Partitioning a SSD does nothing but reduce drive capacity, making it faster to fill with data and begin to slow down. 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.
October 29, 20232 yr Commercial Member 8 hours ago, stans said: When a SSD's are more than 70% full, they begin to slow because it becomes more difficult to find empty blocks of suitable size for the data or files that the drive is attempting to save. Partitioning a SSD does nothing but reduce drive capacity, making it faster to fill with data and begin to slow down. 1) This never affected read speeds, only writes. 2) Any modern drive and OS that supports TRIM should not encounter this issue to any appreciable extent. Cheers Luke Kolin I make simFDR, the most advanced flight data recorder for FSX, Prepar3D and X-Plane.
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