P3Dv5 on the C: drive?

[Chuck Dreier 76]

There’s one guy out there (YouTube) that says P3D should be installed on the C drive.  I’m doing a reinstall of version 5.3 and have always installed it to a dedicated SSD.  I wonder what some of you tech savvy folks think about this?

Edited April 30 by Chuck Dreier

[dave2013 1,151]

I really don't think it makes any difference what drive it's installed on.  I've always installed FSX and P3Dv4-6 on my E drive and never had any issues.

Dave

[Rogen 1,102]

21 minutes ago, Chuck Dreier said:

There’s one guy out there (YouTube) that says P3D should be installed on the C drive.

Any drive letter will do in reality.

The thing to avoid is the Windows "Program Files" path as it has limited NTFS permissions, e.g. designed for "Read Only" type of installs and managed by Windows itself.

So a good path would be something like C:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5 where the path will create to include the permissions of "Authenticated Users" - "Modify".

I have my installs spread across a number of drives (including a ram disk), with the main paths being H:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4 & H:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5 as I have two version P3D releases installed.

Backup is via a RoboCopy script which pulls together 23 separate paths of various files onto a 4 TB backup drive that is rotated about once every month or so.

The itself script is run by the Windows Task Scheduler.

Hope the above helps 🙂

Cheers

[Dave_YVR 997]

Agreed with Rogen above.

 On the C drive isn't a bad thing at all, just don't let it install to it's default location. 

[Patco Lch 1,482]

I have my P3DV5 and most addons on my D drive and have two external SSD drives I use for backup storage as well as a lot of space consuming photo scenery linked via my scenery library. I keep those inactive unless I’m using them and I notice no performance penalties for having sceneries on a different drive and external at that. In fact just for fits and giggles I installed FSX/Steam on my Toshiba external SSD to see how that would work and seems to be fine. I use it to revisit that never equaled LVLD 767. So even your addons don’t have to be on the same drives.

[Ronda_sim 14]

I put my P3D on an 8TB SSD I have in the pc. That way I can install anything I want on it. Also most of my photoreal and ORBX packages are there and this is making my sim comfortable. 

[blaunarwal 433]

These guys on YouTube say a lot that is supposed to be true.

I decided for another drive, cause I want my OS separated from the application and data files. It makes it easier, if you want to move the sim one day to another SSD with more space. You can just copy the whole drive 1:1. 

Also the OS needs more and more space with time and it should have some headroom. If you install your sim and addons on the C drive, the space left will shrink with time when adding addons. One day you will probably ask here, how to move on a bigger ssd or how to move P3D on another drive.

Dan