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Posted onPost created on January 04 2012 01:51 ET by Kyle Richardson

Hi guys will it make a big difference if I run one 60GB SSD for windows and another 60GB for FSX or can I just use one SSD for both programs?

Kyle Richardson (DVA8901)

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Posted onPost created on January 04 2012 03:27 ET by Robert Armstrong

You might end up finding that 60GB might be a bit small for FSX... Especially if you have or plan on having alot of addons.

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Posted onPost created on January 04 2012 10:17 ET by Trevor Bair

My Windows 7 Ultimate only installation took up around 25 gb on a 60GB SSD. But, as long as you carefully manage what you put on the SSD and make sure you regularly clean up temp files, etc, you should be fine. FSX on a separate drive works great but is definitely a disk space hog, I agree with Robert that 60gb won't cut it. Right now, my FSX drive is at 59.4GB and that's without a huge amount of add-ons (glad I have the 1TB drive for it!). Personally, I wouldn't consider anything less than 250GB for FS.

Will it make a huge performance difference? My guess is not really, but it can't hurt. The OS being quicker though (thanks to the SSD) will be a good thing. I'd honestly be more concerned with your FS drive's throughput (RPM, cache and transfer rate). Do put them on separate drives though.

Trevor Bair

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Posted onPost created on January 04 2012 10:30 ET by John Anderson

Trevor Bair wrote:

Do put them on separate drives though.

If it is Windows 7 that you're working with . . . This is the best advice.
I didn't try putting it on the same drive when I installed, but I haven't tried playing with a loaded rattlesnake either.

The way WIN7 protects files on the root drive apparently would cause problems.

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Posted onPost created on January 04 2012 18:06 ET by Louis Vanbelkum

Use the ssd as a boot drive only. If you have not bought them yet I would buy the one drive and spend the other part of the money improving something that would do a little more good, or a good 500gb hdd.

Posted onPost created on January 05 2012 10:39 ET by Kyle Richardson

Trevor Bair wrote:

My Windows 7 Ultimate only installation took up around 25 gb on a 60GB SSD. But, as long as you carefully manage what you put on the SSD and make sure you regularly clean up temp files, etc, you should be fine. FSX on a separate drive works great but is definitely a disk space hog, I agree with Robert that 60gb won't cut it. Right now, my FSX drive is at 59.4GB and that's without a huge amount of add-ons (glad I have the 1TB drive for it!). Personally, I wouldn't consider anything less than 250GB for FS.

Will it make a huge performance difference? My guess is not really, but it can't hurt. The OS being quicker though (thanks to the SSD) will be a good thing. I'd honestly be more concerned with your FS drive's throughput (RPM, cache and transfer rate). Do put them on separate drives though.

Louis Vanbelkum wrote:

Use the ssd as a boot drive only. If you have not bought them yet I would buy the one drive and spend the other part of the money improving something that would do a little more good, or a good 500gb hdd.

Thanks for your help I think I will just just get one 60GB SSD to run Windows 7 and I will run FSX on the HDD because I learned that I won't really see any improvements on FPS using a SSD so I don't think its worth the extra $100.

Kyle Richardson (DVA8901)

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