Any way to "bank" modules on another drive?

[RyanR]

 

DCS is *huge*.... and is just going to get bigger. I downloaded the Kola map to support the project, as well as a few others, and a was surprised to only have a few GB's left on my 1TB SSD boot drive. Not surprising since I have all my Autodesk/Adobe/work software on this machine. I cleaned house quite a bit, and got an extra hundred GB's back. With the last update, I still didn't have enough space to install it. Soooo.... I uninstalled some terrains/modules that I'm not using. Job done.

Of course, when I want to reinstall those modules, you have to download them from ED.... which takes a long time. Two hours. Lot of data! Is there a way to "save" module installers on another drive, so that I can just pull them back in? Or is this just impractical with updates making potential "saved" versions obsolete? Can you spread a DCS install across multiple drives?

What do you guys do? I've a 2TB data drive.... but it's full of.... data. It's also a spinner, so slower than an SSD. I can't remember if I've another hard drive bay in this box. I guess I could do a DCS specific drive. First world problems.

Damn you ED and third party developers for your super cool sim, planes, and places to fly them!

Thanks!

-Ryan

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, RyanR said:

Is there a way to "save" module installers on another drive, so that I can just pull them back in? Or is this just impractical with updates making potential "saved" versions obsolete?

 

Yes, it is impractical as in a few updates the backup would be obsolete

 

1 hour ago, RyanR said:

Can you spread a DCS install across multiple drives?

 

Yes, you can make use of windows "Junctions" to place, for example, the "terrains" folder on another drive, however placing it on a traditional hard drive will likely impact the DCS performance.

 

1 hour ago, RyanR said:

What do you guys do?

 

On my case, I'm saving up to replace my 1 TB SSD with a 2 TB unit. Adding another unit is not feasible on my PC as it only has two slots for NVME drives and both are already in use with 1 TB units. Once I've upgraded the drive, I will sell my old 1 TB NVME to recover part of the cost of the new unit.

[RyanR]

3 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

On my case, I'm saving up to replace my 1 TB SSD with a 2 TB unit. Adding another unit is not feasible on my PC as it only has two slots for NVME drives and both are already in use with 1 TB units. Once I've upgraded the drive, I will sell my old 1 TB NVME to recover part of the cost of the new unit.

 

 

Many thanks for the response!

Perhaps I can use "Junctions" to send some other programs to another drive. I *think* I have a free NVMe slot in this machine. I dunno why I didn't take notes last time I had the case open.

Definitely need to save some pennies for one. See how long I can push this out. I *really* want to upgrade my rudder pedals first.

-Ryan

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, RyanR said:

I *think* I have a free NVMe slot in this machine. I dunno why I didn't take notes last time I had the case open.

 

You can use the CPU-z utility to detect which exact motherboard your PC has, with that info it should be easy to download the motherboard manual to check the info there.

On my case, I have an Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming 4, pretty dated but I have not felt yet the need to upgrade it, I'd rather upgrade my CPU first, from the current Ryzen 3600 to a 5600X, for a 30% higher single core performance, for just US$ 190 (minus what I can get from the used part)

 

 

[fredm2002]

I had the same problem, and bought a 4 tb nvme drive that was on sale at Amazon for a cheap price.   Not sure of your location, so not sure if that  is  possible.