TomG628 Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Hi, After being away from Simming for a few years, I just bought a new system along with a TB SSD and 2 TB HDD hard drives along with Prepar3d version 4. I want to get it right from the start, so what types of files should be stored on each drive? A friend suggested all flight sim files and addons should go on the Solid State drive, so what should the mechanical drive be used for? Thanks. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mallcott Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 Hi, After being away from Simming for a few years, I just bought a new system along with a TB SSD and 2 TB HDD hard drives along with Prepar3d version 4. I want to get it right from the start, so what types of files should be stored on each drive? A friend suggested all flight sim files and addons should go on the Solid State drive, so what should the mechanical drive be used for? Thanks. Tom OS/P3D on SSD. P3D NOT recommended for the game-standard Program Files. Better on a standalone subset of the C:\ drive: C:\Prepar3d Scenery files on HD IF you use Orbx, that will be better off on the HD as well, using the MKLink command P3Dv4 will put addon aircraft elsewhere on the C:\ drive. If the addon wants to be in the P3D install in \Prepar3d v4\SimObjects\Aircraft that is NOT the recommended location, suggesting the aircraft is NOT actually P3dv4 compliant. More research needed before installing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomG628 Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Thanks for the help. Not familiar with "MKLink". How do you save a download to the HDD drive instead of the default SSD drive ? Thanks.. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 The MKLink he's referring to is the symlink creation to store files on another drive or partition. What this does is that since ORBX wants to be on your main drive, you can symlink the directory to another hard drive to save space. Seen as how you have a 1 TB SSD I wouldn't even bother. To redirect your downloads folder to the platter, that is a setting withen your browser. You may also want to store videos, documents, pictures, music, etc on the platter and not the SSD. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howlak Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 As indicated by CRJ_simpilot in the howtogeek link, I recommend the option Link Shell Extension: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html#introduction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 That's a good program, and I've used it, but like I mentioned you really don't have to place ORBX on the platter since he's got a 1 TB SSD. Especially if all one uses is global. Even then, it's not like you're gonna run out of room anytime soon. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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