Mettle Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigati Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 Symbolic links work, so you chan choose different drives for different folders.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigati Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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…Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mettle Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 Thank-you gentlemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mettle Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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. For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mettle Posted November 27, 2022 Author Share Posted November 27, 2022 How can that be if the Supercarrier needs 1000mb for storage and the F18 takes 748mb storage?? Am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXsenna Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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). Cheers! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ala13_ManOWar Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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. 1 "I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare for war, you get war." -- Major-General Frederick B. Maurice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkateZilla Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 i tend to put symlinks for the /_downloads/ folder and the /Mods/Terrains/ folder Windows 10 Pro, Ryzen 2700X @ 4.6Ghz, 32GB DDR4-3200 GSkill (F4-3200C16D-16GTZR x2), ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate, XFX RX6800XT Merc 310 (RX-68XTALFD9) 3x ASUS VS248HP + Oculus HMD, Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS + MFDs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted November 27, 2022 Share Posted November 27, 2022 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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