Installing DCS onto dedicated drive

[CTB]

I've seen comments that DCS should be on its own drive or partition and to me this makes sense.

I have it on Drive C at the moment, but its folder is in the root directory.  This is fine for trying out the game but I will be moving it to a dedicated drive as it is taking up a lot of space on drive C.

Am going to buy a new large drive and the intention is to combine with another game, which is on its own dedicated drive so that both are on this new drive.  The other game likes to be on a dedicated drive, or the first partition on a disk.

So this would mean either have both on the same drive in their respective folders at root level, or have two partitions and DCS be on the second partition.  The DCS partition will be at least 5-8 times larger than the first partition, depending on how much available space I get and leave unallocated/free.

Does DCS care if it is on a second partition or does it want to be on the first?

Does it prefer not to be on a partition?

I could keep the other disk and have both separate but then I would need to lose a Sata slot due to PCI bandwidth sharing.

 

Edit:  forgot to say that the saved games folder will not be affected as it is not on drive C so will not go onto new drive.

Edited 9 hours ago by CTB

[MAXsenna]

@CTB Don't bother to partition the drive. There will be no benefits whatsoever. Just have the games in different folders like you've planned.

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[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

I’m old-school and always partition my drives to keep things organised the way I like it. I keep C:\ for purely windows and drivers for example, so that I can happily format C:\ if the need arises without losing any data: my documents, pictures and saved games folders are on a different partition.

Since I built my new system I do indeed keep DCS on its own dedicated drive.

Is there a particular need or benefit to using partitions or even a dedicated drive? Nope, not these days so it just comes down to personal preference and how you like to organise things.

Whatever works for you is fine

[CTB]

14 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

@CTB Don't bother to partition the drive. There will be no benefits whatsoever. Just have the games in different folders like you've planned.

Cheers!

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3 minutes ago, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I’m old-school and always partition my drives to keep things organised the way I like it. I keep C:\ for purely windows and drivers for example, so that I can happily format C:\ if the need arises without losing any data: my documents, pictures and saved games folders are on a different partition.

Since I built my new system I do indeed keep DCS on its own dedicated drive.

Is there a particular need or benefit to using partitions or even a dedicated drive? Nope, not these days so it just comes down to personal preference and how you like to organise things.

Whatever works for you is fine

 

Thanks for the quick replies, both have a similar response so I've included in same reply.

There may not be a benefit to partitioning (there is one to me, which I will explain), but is there any detriment?

The other software likes to be in the top level folder in the root directory. Also I have other folders and shortcuts to config files, saved data, supporting software, setup files and text notes to remind myself what is going on and where everything is etc.

DCS could go in a renamed folder, but I may end up having associated shortcuts for it also and it could get messy.  So the benefit to me is neatness.

Just wondering if that neatness comes at a performance cost to DCS as then I would have to choose between hit to other software or keeping on separate disks.

[MAXsenna]

1 minute ago, CTB said:

There may not be a benefit to partitioning (there is one to me, which I will explain), but is there any detriment?

On a spinning hardrive, absolutely if it needs to access from several partitions at once. Not so with an SSD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CTB]

Thanks, yeah I should of mentioned the new drive will be a large NVMe SSD.

I already have a smaller one for system and the other drive that is being done away with is also an HDD (WD raptor if you remember them!).

I'm moving away from mechanical drives, especially for high performance but still good for large batch storage.

 

DCS itself doesn't really care though?

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

9 minutes ago, CTB said:

but is there any detriment?

You loose a bit of capacity (the size of all your partitions added will be a bit less than the total capacity of the drive) by making partitions but that’s pretty much it.

Just now, CTB said:

DCS itself doesn't really care though?

Nope.