It does make a significant improvement in load times. Unfortunately it became almost full last night.
As some may have noticed I'm tending towards high resolution photoreal scenery.
For me, it has to be in the range of 1m (LOD 15) to 5M (LOD 13) range.
Lately, most of what has been filling up my SSD is in the 1m range from Blue Sky Scenery.
Much photoreal scenery has no autogen added, and looks very unappetizing.
With some of the Blue Sky Scenery the ground and mountains look very good right down to 500 feet, and GREAT above that.
The cities, unfortunately, are another matter. Some of them don't look very good until you're 2,000 to 3,000 AGL.
One way to mitigate that is to find airport and city scenery to make your landings look good.
Fortunately, Blue Sky Scenery is starting to add carefully placed airport scenery into their photoreal scenery, along with some autogen.
Any scenery that says it's for "FSX & Prepar3d" should be very good. And as time goes by, they're replacing some of the older scenery.
ANYWAY..... back to my "full" drive.
I've mentioned it several times before, but I'll say it again - Junction Link Magic is a very simple way to use a Windows 7 & 8 feature to transparently move files, folders, and programs to a different location.
So I used Junction Link Magic to move about 60GB of less frequently visited scenery to a fast hard drive.
The Palm Springs scenery & the Scout aircraft were download to test the function & speed of the move. At any rate, alles ist gut.
Because Windows can use multiple SATA drives at the same time there was only a little delay, 10 - 15 seconds, in loading the scenery from the hard drive.
Now back to the early morning flight into Palm Springs, CA.
Palm Springs ahead
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