Does anyone know if all DCS components MUST be on the same drive?

[Mettle]

Does anyone know if all DCS components MUST be on the same drive?

That's it really....Does anyone happen to know. Could use an answer thx.

[Dragon1-1]

Normally, yes. In theory, you could try using symlinks to cheat that, but I haven't been able to test that theory (turns out, space is low on my other SSD, as well).

[Trigati]

Symbolic links work, so you chan choose different drives for different folders.


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[Rudel_chw]

Actually, symbolic links don't work for DCS, you need to use a junction instead .. more info here:

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html

 

[Trigati]

Actually, symbolic links don't work for DCS, you need to use a junction instead .. more info here:
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html
 

Yes, my bad… forgot the J flag is what I used with the mklink command…


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[Mettle]

Thank-you gentlemen.

[Mettle]

One more question if you have the time... How do people store the Supercarrier, FA-18, AH, F-15, A-10A/C, 3 terrains all on 1 sata. Everyone else got 4-8TB?? I can hotswap.

What I'm thinking is one instance of DCS with F18 and Supercarrier on one 2TB sata, and another instance of DCS and the rest of the modules on a second 2TB sata and hot swap between them. Is this a doable thing?? Anyone?

Edited November 27, 2022 by Mettle

[Rudel_chw]

21 minutes ago, Mettle said:

Everyone else got 4-8TB??

? DCS with every terrain and module uses less than 0.5 TB … It fits on my 1 TB drive alongside windows and my most used softwares.

[Mettle]

How can that be if the Supercarrier needs 1000mb for storage and the F18 takes 748mb storage?? Am I missing something?

[MAXsenna]

How can that be if the Supercarrier needs 1000mb for storage and the F18 takes 748mb storage?? Am I missing something?

Because 1000MB is one thousand MegaBytes which roughly equals 1GB (GigaByte).
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[Ala13_ManOWar]

1 hour ago, Mettle said:

One more question if you have the time... How do people store the Supercarrier, FA-18, AH, F-15, A-10A/C, 3 terrains all on 1 sata. Everyone else got 4-8TB?? I can hotswap.

What I'm thinking is one instance of DCS with F18 and Supercarrier on one 2TB sata, and another instance of DCS and the rest of the modules on a second 2TB sata and hot swap between them. Is this a doable thing?? Anyone?

 

I have it all on a single 1Tb nvme, which I know in time I probably will have to change, but for the moment it's plenty of space, and I don't own all the modules but I do all the maps now (those are the space consuming ones) and maybe 80% modules, and still it's fine, I even got FS20 on the same drive and no need for 4-8Tb at all for the moment. We'll see in the future with all the maps announced, but right now it's fine and works great.

[SkateZilla]

i tend to put symlinks for the /_downloads/  folder and the /Mods/Terrains/ folder

[Dragon1-1]

I'm planning to get a 1TB M.2 SSD for DCS only (and maybe other sims, space permitting) and leave the OS and other important stuff on the current 500GB one. Should future-proof this aspect quite well, even with all the new terrains that are coming.