Haven't been on this site long but it's good to feel at home. My question ~ I use ssd's on my HTPC for various reasons. I have in the past always mounted FSX on 'C' drive can I mount it on perhaps 'E' to free up space on 'C' . Having done that can I use another drive perhaps 'F' to mount a newly bought XPlane10. I know I'm greedy. The silence and heat issues of ssd's, besides the load up speeds are suited to the HTPC environment. Many thanks for any help
In order to do this can I just cut and paste the programme

Daube ~ Thanks for your courteous and comprehensive reply

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Yes it is. You will experience much faster loading times and smoother micro-loadings during flights. However, do NOT expect a single additionnal FPS.
My FSX is on a SSD and I'm never going back to normal hardrives.

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Hmm I don't think so. It's mainly the CPU that impacts the loading of the textures. The normal harddrives are already fast enough to read them, but it's the CPU that works to show them with the appropriate resolution.

On the topic of FSX, and components, you can also place your addon aircraft and scenery files anywhere
you wish on your system. For instance, I have several "Aircraft" folders named "FSX_AI", "FSX_Military_AI",
"Propliners", "Aircraft" (the old FSP nomenclature, thus FS9 port-overs go there".

These are spread around on my system and FSX is "made aware" of their existence through entries in
the FSX.CFG file "Main" section. One of the benefits of this "method" is that one can easily selectively
enable/disable various categories of SimObjects just by commenting out, ot not, the entries.
As an example:
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[Main]
User Objects=Airplane, Helicopter
SimObjectPaths.0=SimObjects\Airplanes
SimObjectPaths.1=SimObjects\Rotorcraft
SimObjectPaths.2=SimObjects\GroundVehicles
SimObjectPaths.3=SimObjects\Boats
//SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Animals
SimObjectPaths.4=SimObjects\Misc
//SimObjectPaths.5=SimObjects\Aircraft
//SimObjectPaths.6=Y:\FSX AI Aircraft
//SimObjectPaths.7=Y:\FSX Military AI
//SimObjectPaths.8=I:\FSX Military Aircraft
//SimobjectPaths.9=I:\FSX A6 Aircraft
//SimObjectPaths.10=SimObjects\Propliner Aircraft
//SimObjectPaths.11=ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAI_AIRCRAFT
 

The above reverts FSX SimObjects back close to default, since I have commented out several
types. Note also that you need to supply the full path to those "external" SimObjects folders.

For scenery, since to add it via the GUI Scenery Library you "point" FSX to the location of the folder
for the scenery you wish to add, it can be placed anywhere. matter of fact, the entire "Addon Scenery"
folder can be aliased to a separate drive with an empty "Addon Scenery" folder located in the
FSX directory. I have two FSX installs, one on my XP Pro x32 partition and one on my Win7 X64 partiton (dual-boot).

My "J:" drive contains all my Addon Scenery and is aliased to the empty folders in both those FSX installs.
Thus both installs "share" the common "Addon Scenery" folder. FSX is on my "I:" drivein Xp and
on my "X:" drive in Win7.

   Paul (just some food for thought) 

Dave 71k ~ I use ssd's because my HTPC sits underneath my TV{TV doubles as my monitor}  I like it cool and quiet SSD's have both attributes. Plus the load up times and bit of response. It's watercooled my first. Fraid' I am a addict to this stuff and allows me to fly in my easy chair. Must compile my sig. LOL

Can't comment or give advice on your needs being honest. All I can say is I used big drives and found them distracting in my living room environment. Because of the fast load up of win7, (then unless told) everything else feels faster. But I don't know about the real technicalities. It's just my "feel good factor".