FSX or P3Dv4? Your opinions please

My advise would be to get a smaller M.2 for the boot drive, 250GB is plenty and get a larger conventional SSD later for P3D.
They are a bit pricey at the moment though due to a world wide shortage of NAND flash memory.
 
Dangerous Beans said:
My advise would be to get a smaller M.2 for the boot drive, 250GB is plenty and get a larger conventional SSD later for P3D.
They are a bit pricey at the moment though due to a world wide shortage of NAND flash memory.
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My previous system I got was a 250gb with a larger magnetic data disk and regretted it as once I filled it up it was a bear to re-organize. I like having the sim itself on the SSD with all its scenery so it loads fast. The new system as a 1TB M.2 SSD that has the boot disk and P3D installed on it.
 
blanston12 said:
My previous system I got was a 250gb with a larger magnetic data disk and regretted it as once I filled it up it was a bear to re-organize. I like having the sim itself on the SSD with all its scenery so it loads fast. The new system as a 1TB M.2 SSD that has the boot disk and P3D installed on it.
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I too am leaning toward a dedicated SSD just for P3D. It's currently residing on an already almost maxed out 2 TB 2.5 HHD, using Disktrix to organize everything, runs decently. However, I still have yet to add aircraft to an already very robust Orbx/REX landscape and just feel a dedicated SSD would do much better towards accessing, updating, etc during the entire flight regimen.

My question to those who have done so in the past, how easy is it to migrate your entire P3D folder to a new HHD? Will I need to reassign much, aside from the desktop shortcut?
 
Cloning a hard drive is not too difficult with the right software. The last time I did it I used Acronis software. Here is a link to one of many videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXkYKzY6vs .

There is also a huge online knowledge base for this type of action and several pieces of software that do the same thing as Acronis. I'm sure there is someone here at SOH that knows a good piece of freeware to accomplish this task.
 
strykerpsg said:
My question to those who have done so in the past, how easy is it to migrate your entire P3D folder to a new HHD? Will I need to reassign much, aside from the desktop shortcut?
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Adapted shortcuts and registry entries, provided P3D doesn't use any fancy activation schemes.
 
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