SSD Management

[arcavasion]

I am getting a new rig with a SSD, and I know I want to install DCS World on the SSD, but how about the modules, or do I have no choice once I put world on the SSD? Thanks in advance

[cichlidfan]

I have no choice once I put world on the SSD?

 

Correct.

[Abburo]

Prepare for even much disk space if you will intend to acquire future maps also.

[HiJack]

I am getting a new rig with a SSD, and I know I want to install DCS World on the SSD, but how about the modules, or do I have no choice once I put world on the SSD? Thanks in advance

You could use windows mount points to mount a folder on another disk for mods but the windows service is messy stuff if failing.

[cichlidfan]

You could use windows mount points to mount a folder on another disk for mods...

 

Agreed, but not something I would recommend. Especially since doing so would defeat part of the purpose of having DCS on an SSD in the first place.

 

Also, the benefit of doing so would be limited since (using my, all module, installation as an example) the total install is 16GB with only 2.8GB of that being modules.

Edited September 24, 2014 by cichlidfan

[EtherealN]

My question would be: why put "DCS" on an SSD, but then place the modules - being an integral part of your DCS experience - on a different medium?

 

This seems to me like taking an SSD as a "boot drive" but putting all the programs you'll be using on a mechnical drive.

[HiJack]

Well, it's possible to have the mods folder on another drive :music_whistling: That was the question at hand :smartass:

 

 

But it's just wasted time, money and creates a lot of issues

 

[Thick8]

Just put your whole system on the SSD. then image it on your old hard drive for a back up. I use a Samsung 840 500Gb hard drive with my old 500Gb hard drive and I do a complete disk image about once a month so if the SSD craps out I don't loose anything.

[BitMaster]

My question would be: why put "DCS" on an SSD, but then place the modules - being an integral part of your DCS experience - on a different medium?

 

This seems to me like taking an SSD as a "boot drive" but putting all the programs you'll be using on a mechnical drive.

 

I know people who do exactly that, despite all talk, advice, begging not to do so, telling them not to built them one again, by the life of your mother and what not else but they just won't listen.

 

Their Maxime is:

 

The SSD is too precious to put ANYTHING on it but Windows ! ...what a waste

 

 

Bit

[cichlidfan]

Several years ago, I tried to run my flight rig with just Windows and DCS on a 60GB SSD with everything else on a mechanical drive. That didn't last long.

 

My laptop doesn't even have a mechanical drive in it. I replaced it with two SSDs and never looked back.

[xaoslaad]

Just put your whole system on the SSD. then image it on your old hard drive for a back up. I use a Samsung 840 500Gb hard drive with my old 500Gb hard drive and I do a complete disk image about once a month so if the SSD craps out I don't loose anything.

 

Get out of my head!!!! I do the same thing, lol. Right down to the 500Gb Samsung SSD and old 500Gb spinning disk, so I heartily endorse your advice. In my case I just use the Windows backup and recovery tool (I forget what it's called in Windows 8 but it's hidden in the File History section of the Control Panel) and have (not with this hard drive) used it in the past to restore to recover from a failed disk. It's free, assuming you have the external drive, and can save A LOT of misery.

Edited September 25, 2014 by xaoslaad

[Alicatt]

Been using an SSD on my laptop since august 2010, it is used daily but not for games, I must get round to putting one in my desktop PC soon :)

 

This PC is on it's last legs now and I'm nursing it a long for a little while longer. When I build my next PC it will have a SSD from the word go.