Simviation Forum - 2nd HDD?

Aug 28^th, 2009 at 3:09pm

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I'm quite a novice, but am specking out a new system. One of my questions has to do with hard-drives. Would it be wise to get a 2nd hdd exclusively for flight sim and would it be okay to put both FS9 and FSX on that drive? Also, would the OS go on the larger-main HDD? Thanks.

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Reply #1 - Aug 28^th, 2009 at 6:04pm

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CDreier wrote on Aug 28^th, 2009 at 3:09pm:

I'm quite a novice, but am specking out a new system. One of my questions has to do with hard-drives. Would it be wise to get a 2nd hdd exclusively for flight sim and would it be okay to put both FS9 and FSX on that drive? Also, would the OS go on the larger-main HDD? Thanks.

Yes it would be wise to put flight sim on a second drive. Main reason being is that your flight sim drive will not become fragmented anywhere near as quick as the OS drive. I would think it is fine to put both versions on the same drive, but am unsure as I only have FSX. As far as which drive to put things it is best to put FS on the larger drive. THat being said, I didnt do that and have FSX on a 500gb seagate and my OS and other items on a 1 tb drive.

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Reply #2 - Aug 29^th, 2009 at 4:42am

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Always remember to check they have the same RPM speed, otherwise your system will run at the slower speed Wink

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Reply #3 - Aug 29^th, 2009 at 6:10am

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It's also good to have a backup to install the OS on if your primary stops working (Just had to install vista on my FSX drive due to broken primary HDD....waiting for a replacement and can still use the computer

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Reply #4 - Sep 13^th, 2009 at 4:21pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Aug 29^th, 2009 at 4:42am:

Always remember to check they have the same RPM speed, otherwise your system will run at the slower speed Wink

I had planned on using a VRaptor (10k RPM) for the FSX drive and a 7200 RPM for the other hdd. Not a good idea????

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Reply #5 - Sep 13^th, 2009 at 6:12pm

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I had planned on using a VRaptor (10k RPM) for the FSX drive and a 7200 RPM for the other hdd. Not a good idea????

Put FSX on the fastest drive. Use the other for Windows and other stuff.

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