Dear All,

I am considering the purchase of the A320 family from Fenix.

I will install it on a dedicated drive for MSFS.

However, I am running out of space on my C drive so I was wondering if Fenix places any files on the C drive, and if they do, what how big is the folder that contains them.

Best regards,

Peter

 

Currently the installer places ALL the files on the C Drive and they cannot be moved.

This is planned to be changed in the future.

17 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Currently the installer places ALL the files on the C Drive and they cannot be moved.

Unless the A320 was installed elsewhere before the new installer arrived. I was very glad about this, I try to keep my 😄 drive as clean as possible...

2 hours ago, Peterwk said:

I was wondering if Fenix places any files on the C drive, and if they do, what how big is the folder that contains them.

Approximately 1GB. C:\Program Files\FenixSim A320

1 hour ago, AnkH said:

Unless the A320 was installed elsewhere before the new installer arrived. I was very glad about this, I try to keep my 😄 drive as clean as possible...

That's a pity. I won't be able to buy the A320 family until this is fixed. 

I'm glad that I asked the question. 

Best regards, 

Peter 

52 minutes ago, Peterwk said:

That's a pity. I won't be able to buy the A320 family until this is fixed. 

I'm glad that I asked the question. 

Best regards, 

Peter 

You don't even have an extra 1 GB on your C drive. I am surprised you PC even runs. 

20 minutes ago, Bobsk8 said:

You don't even have an extra 1 GB on your C drive. I am surprised you PC even runs. 

I agree, 1GB is miniscule on modern SDDs.

19 minutes ago, Cpt_Piett said:

I agree, 1GB is miniscule on modern SDDs.

I have about 9 GB available. 

So it looks like I can acquire the A320 family. 

Best regards, 

Peter 

21 minutes ago, Peterwk said:

I have about 9 GB available.

You haven't said how large your C drive is or whether it's an HDD or SSD.

It used to be, with HDDs, that you should leave 15-20% free as Windows needs 15% available for defragmenting. But with SSDs, that is not the case as they get optimised rather than defragmented. Unfortunately, the advice is less clear - some say 20-25% whilst others say, "don't worry, Windows will tell you when you need to make more space available".

In my experience, 20-25% is completely unnecessary for an SSD but I prefer to keep more than enough free so that Windows won't tell me to delete or move anything. It's a moot point for me on my MSFS rig anyway as my C drive typically has 40-60% free as it was better value per GB at the time I bought it and I have the bonus of being able to use some of the free space as temporary storage when my other drives inevitably do get too full.

So, SSD or HDD, you should be fine if you have 15% free after installing the Fenix, and if you have a little less than that on an SSD, you probably don't need to worry until Windows tells you to. 😉

Edited August 20, 20241 yr by 109Sqn
Added some clarification

Drives are cheap. No need to sacrifice.

On 8/20/2024 at 10:12 PM, 109Sqn said:

You haven't said how large your C drive is or whether it's an HDD or SSD.

It used to be, with HDDs, that you should leave 15-20% free as Windows needs 15% available for defragmenting. But with SSDs, that is not the case as they get optimised rather than defragmented. Unfortunately, the advice is less clear - some say 20-25% whilst others say, "don't worry, Windows will tell you when you need to make more space available".

In my experience, 20-25% is completely unnecessary for an SSD but I prefer to keep more than enough free so that Windows won't tell me to delete or move anything. It's a moot point for me on my MSFS rig anyway as my C drive typically has 40-60% free as it was better value per GB at the time I bought it and I have the bonus of being able to use some of the free space as temporary storage when my other drives inevitably do get too full.

So, SSD or HDD, you should be fine if you have 15% free after installing the Fenix, and if you have a little less than that on an SSD, you probably don't need to worry until Windows tells you to. 😉

The C drive is a part of a partitioned SSD.  The partition size is 123 GB and I have 9.58 GB left.

I run MSFS on a different partition without any issues.

Best regards,

Peter

Would symbolic links be viable to shift it?

2 hours ago, Peterwk said:

The C drive is a part of a partitioned SSD.  The partition size is 123 GB and I have 9.58 GB left.

Why not just allocating more space to the C:\ partition then? Should be possible even with Windows internal tools: shrink the other partition e.g. by 50GB and reallocate those now free 50GB to C:\ and bang, you have additional 50GB space on your C:\ partition...