What to move?

[olderndirt]

After reading about the advantages of using a second hard drive to keep things sorted, I'm about to give it a go.

[NickN]

LOL

That works best if you MOVE MSFS to the fastest single drive in the system and make sure there are no partitions involved and leave the OS on the other

All you are doing is house cleaning which will help but that is not going to net you any real solid gains

[olderndirt]

Thanks Nick.

[NickN]

in your case where both are SATA (assuming both are SATAII) the fastest drive will be the 250 since the larger the platter the better the access performance due to basic geometry

The smaller the platter the slower the access perf


Moving a drive is not an option. Windows installed on the hardware from tower A. Unless the motherboard and hardware are identical in tower B and you plug into the same SATA port, migrating a drive will not work.. clean install

[olderndirt]

Afraid of that - it all sounded too convenient.

[NickN]

If all you are moving is a drive to be used as a secondary then yes, that can be done and the os or entire 250 drive can be wiped.


Are the 2 towers of equal spec in terms of performance? I mean, you dont want to put all your eggs in the slow basket if the basket A is faster than Basket B to begin with.

Storage strategy is not a cure all for performance issues. It helps, no doubt about that but its nearly the last item on the totem pole to make sure is in order under the CPU/memory/video card/setup

[olderndirt]

It sounds like I'm still between a rock and a hard place.

[NickN]

There are ways to back up and migrate FS9 but the addons may also have registry support that would be wiped out if you were to clean install Windows where FS9 was installed. There is no way to save addons that have registry support however the main FS9 install can be moved and the registry edited using tools available on the net.

The bottom line is if you are not savvy with such things you just bite the bullet and do a clean install with the setup that is best for the result.


Equal processor/memory/video support and moving to set up a different HDD layout.. hmmm