Hard Drive Setup FSX

[harryrupert]

Hi Guys,
Sorry to be still confused about this, I'm having a new system built with 2 x hard drives, 1 x 150gb Raptor and 1 x 500gb Seagate, from the posts I have read its seems that I should install FSX on one drive and the O/s on the other? The guy who is building the system is suggesting that the O/s being Vista 64 should be on the WD Raptor which will in his view make the system faster but I think he's wrong. I wanted FSX on the Raptor due to its access speed. Am I correct in this? Also how should the drives be designated "C" or "D" or doesn't it matter. Really would appreciate some help on this one.
thanks

[rikm12345]

Hi, i have my system an a 500gb seagate drive & FSX on the Raptor drive to give faster texture loading times.

Ok, your system would benefit running off the Raptor drive, but it all depends on what your going to be using the PC for. I think as long your 2 drives are well defragged your system will still run fairly fast, depending on your other hardware, motherboard, cpu, ram etc....

[NickN]

I think the tech is thinking more on the lines of storage space for the games over the speed

They consider the larger drive better suited for the game dump..

not so

If you are sure the space on the Raptor is all you will need, other way around and make sure he does not partition them

[harryrupert]

Thanks for the input, I will ask to to put Vista 64 on the Seagate and then I will install FSX on the Raptor, as I am only going to run FSX in principal. I think the 150gb will be big enough. I do understand that some of the add ons could go onto the Seagate anyway 'database' type programs like GEX, FEX, FTX. etc. Although I think I read from one of your posts Nick that Ultimate Terrain X should go on the same drive as FSX?

Thanks again.

[NickN]

I dont know about FTX but GEX and FEX can install to the OS drive.

And yes, UT must go into the FSX install as it wants to by default

150GB should be fine... but I know FTX is a huge install and can eat up space fast, especially if you add packs. I dont have it installed right now because it screws up the area outside the coverage zone in a few places and I need a clean install without it to build GEX Europe.

I have all 3 UTX versions installed with 6GB of AI/GEX/FEX and some mountain photo sceneries and landclass upgrades on a 140GB RAID array and I have 80GB freespace

[harryrupert]

Thanks Nick for the information, I have UTX Europe which I will install an the new system as well as FEX plus AI and some add on aircraft etc ,so hopefully I will take delivery next week and start my  new install.

As to FTX when they do Europe I will have to cope with that.

Just can't wait to fly on the new system.

Thanks once again.