Should FSX be on its own SSD or share SSD with Windows

[Flight Ace]

Is it better to have Windows and FSX on same SSD or windows on one and FSX on another? For example Windows and FSX on a 240 GB SSD or split them between two 120 GB SSDs.?

[Daube]

It's ALWAYS better to have FSX on a different disk than the operating system, may them be SSD disks or normal harddrives.

[pete]

It's ALWAYS better to have FSX on a different disk than the operating system, may them be SSD disks or normal harddrives.

Thanks Daube,

I currently have a 120 GHz SSD with both Windows 7 and FSX on it. The SSD does not provide much in improved FSX performance but excellent boot and loading times for windows as well as FSX.

I received another 120 GHz SSD for Christmas. I now plan on moving FSX onto the new SSD leaving windows on the old. I am just wondering if I will see a difference in the boot and loading times?

Flight Ace

[Daube]

No you will not see any improvement at all in the load times, or very few.
The purpose of moving FSX to a dedicated drive is to improve the read access speed, which limits the micro-stutters. But again, with SSD disks, the differences will be quite minor compared to regular harddrives.

[Flight Ace]

No you will not see any improvement at all in the load times, or very few.
The purpose of moving FSX to a dedicated drive is to improve the read access speed, which limits the micro-stutters. But again, with SSD disks, the differences will be quite minor compared to regular harddrives.

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[mitchgixer6]

So just to jump on this thread if I may?

I currently only have 1 drive (Samsung 1Tb F3) which obviously has everything on it.

I have an old 80Gb drive sitting on the workbench, not sure about spin speed/cache etc. It is an old drive, probably a good 6 years if not more.

Would I see any improvement at all installing the old drive and using it purely for FSX?

[Flight Ace]

So just to jump on this thread if I may?

I currently only have 1 drive (Samsung 1Tb F3) which obviously has everything on it.

I have an old 80Gb drive sitting on the workbench, not sure about spin speed/cache etc. It is an old drive, probably a good 6 years if not more.

Would I see any improvement at all installing the old drive and using it purely for FSX?

I have had both Windows and FSX on the same drive and on separate drives.

With the drives being the same kind either SSD or Standard I have seen little difference in performance. You may see some improvement in overall smoothness in your flight (less or no stutters, etc.) with FSX on its own drive. In your case, this would assume that your older drive tech parameters are equal or better than your 1 TB drive.