"Ruining a harddrive"

[bok269]

Right now I have a basically empty harddrive with the exception of FSX and a couple more gigabytes of stuff.  If I were to put 17 GBs of music on the harddrive, and then move it to an external, would the music leave a mark on the harddrive's speed of accessing files, like when playing FSX?

[Mees]

I don't think so, depends on the size of the disk though, if it's full after the FSX install and the music stored on it...

[ozzy72]

You can always defrag the drive once you've cleared the music off to sort things out

[bok269]

How do you defrag it and what exactly does it do?

[ctjoyce]

Never run your games on an external. There is actually a accessing speed conflict thus slowing your load times down, something you don't want to do. Having your music on an external isn't bad though. Thats something I personally have setup.

Cheers
Cameron