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Flight Sim install hard drive placement

highpockets

highpockets

SOH-CM-2025
Curious how some of you place your sims. Same hd as operating system or different hd in same computer used for all your computer work ,external hd, or computer dedicated to flight sims only? I have two computers available, both with a second H.D. plus an external drive. Good video, 2.5 GHZ cpu on both and 1.0 GB ram.
I back up my sims on dvd anyway.
Thanks
 
My "C" drive is a solid state drive of about 80GB and I limit it to only the operating system and those programs that must be located there. All of my other programs, including all of my flight sims and the multiple CFS2 installs, are located on an internal 1TB drive designated as the "D" drive. I use an external USB3 hard drive for backups. System works well for me and performance is excellent, although that is mainly because of the system specs, not the location of the files.
 
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Highpockets,

My system is set up so that I have all seven copies of CFS2 on my hard drive, together with my centralized system for aircraft models, sounds, and scenery. All of these files are also on my backup drive, and I have a third copy of everything on my laptop, which I use to do a lot of the mission builder work. All three copies are backed up once a week, so I rarely lose anything.
 
I use four HD ,plus EHD one for OS three of them for virtual ram and my EHD for the games I don't instal games in the other four to save space:jump:
 
Thanks guys
Jedragon lost me:mixedsmi:
I will probably stick with using a 200 GB internal HD as the source for my sims keeping my OS on the other HD & backing it up the sims regularly on the external as I add or modify.
Rami I would be interested in how you catalog your aircraft, scenery, sounds etc. You just use separate folders within folders?
I have my stuff scattered everywhere! Some in misc CFS 2 files, some in the theater install files, etc. I am trying to get it organized.
 
Being a photographer and video producer, I have tons of hard drives. My main workstation has a 120G SSD with the computer's Windows 7 64 bit programs on it and I run multiple CFS2 installations from a "work" drive; a 1TB 7200rpm Western Digital Black hard drive. My CFS2 installations and my many add-ons I've downloaded over the years are backed up on on other hard drives. Most recently, I have been using Samsung 2TB EcoGreen F4 HD204UI hard drives for backups in the computer case (10 TB over seven drives) and have at least a half dozen 150 G-1TB drives in external enclosures. CFS2 came out at a time when a 200G hard drive was huge, now 1TB drives are a dime a dozen.
It took me a bit of time to categorize all the CFS2 add-ons, I've tried to organize them in folders so I can find what I'm looking for.
 
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