Advice needed please

robfosters · 24 Feb 2014 at 12:56

I want my FSX and add ons on a dedicated drive.

I bought my SSD mainly to improve boot times. Problem is, the PC is hardly ever off so I don't feel like I'm really benefiting. Would I be better served putting FSX on the SSD, and shifting my Windows installation to one of these?http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-366-WD&groupid=1657&catid=1660&subcat=1665

If so, can anyone please point me in the direction of a guide on the easiest way to shift windows across drives?

hawkhench · 24 Feb 2014 at 14:42

You basically want to do what this SSDFreaks guide says but backwards.

Do you know if your motherboard supports Intel Rapid Storage Technology? Using that to RAID the two drives together (using the SSD as a cache drive) could be an option.

robfosters · 24 Feb 2014 at 15:06

Cheers for your advice Hawk.

In the end I decided against moving the OS off of the SSD. Don't really need much more storage space in general, so when I came across a very fast 128gb Corsair SSD for a great price, I snapped it up. Means FSX will now have it's own dedicated SSD drive.

I want to go totally SSD anyway one day. I'm barely filling a 250gb HDD now, so a nice 500gb Evo or the like should see me fine.

EDIT: My board does support rapid storage. Although I would still wish to keep my FSX drive separate, if I bought a 500gb SSD, could that be bolted on to the main drive via raid to create one big C: Drive? Or do all discs in the system have to be raided?

hawkhench · 24 Feb 2014 at 15:14

Fair enough, good flying!