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MZee1960 said:
Installing P3D on it's own dedicated SSD drive will probably become the new norm in the near future, and installing addons using the addon xml method is becoming the new norm amongst developers for P3D - even Orbx will soon adopt it (so they say on their site). This eliminates a lot of extra work when updates are offered for the core sim, and also makes it a breeze to update to a larger SSD drive should space for P3D be an issue down the road.
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If I were to buy my 250 GB SSD today, it would be under fifty bucks. You can see from the screen cap how much open space I have left on that drive.
A 2.5 NAND PC SATA is perfect for simulator installs. They are fast and affordable.
A 1TB WD 2.5 SSD is $120 US.

When ORBX goes addon, that will be ideal. I even keep my MegaSceneryEarth on a dedicated storage drive.
 
gman5250 said:
If I were to buy my 250 GB SSD today, it would be under fifty bucks. You can see from the screen cap how much open space I have left on that drive.
A 2.5 NAND PC SATA is perfect for simulator installs. They are fast and affordable.
A 1TB WD 2.5 SSD is $120 US.

When ORBX goes addon, that will be ideal. I even keep my MegaSceneryEarth on a dedicated storage drive.
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One of the features that make XP more user friendly is their rather simple updating process. Perhaps P3DV5 will surprise us all when it is released. :encouragement:
 
Gordon good to see you have your machine up and running again.

MZee1960 said:
Installing P3D on it's own dedicated SSD drive will probably become the new norm in the near future, and installing addons using the addon xml method is becoming the new norm amongst developers for P3D - even Orbx will soon adopt it (so they say on their site). This eliminates a lot of extra work when updates are offered for the core sim, and also makes it a breeze to update to a larger SSD drive should space for P3D be an issue down the road.
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I was a big believer installing aircraft outside the main folder, if only so its easy to remove an addon you don't want without having to go into the main folder and do surgery on the files. When V5 comes out I am planning on installing it on its own SSD, I have one spot left in my system for another M2 drive and thats where its going to go.
 
blanston12 said:
I was a big believer installing aircraft outside the main folder, if only so its easy to remove an addon you don't want without having to go into the main folder and do surgery on the files. When V5 comes out I am planning on installing it on its own SSD, I have one spot left in my system for another M2 drive and thats where its going to go.
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I'm also a great fan of installing my add-on aircraft to a location outside of P3D root.

I cobbled together a "method" for semi-automating the process (with a couple of batch files). All described here: https://www.nzfsim.org/fsx-p3d-tweaks/add-ons-outside-p3d-root/

It looks overly complex at first sight - but it's really quite simple in practice. I just had to "over-explain" it all to cover all bases (and levels of user expertise). I can usually install one in a couple of minutes.

Adam.
 
Adamski_NZ said:
I'm also a great fan of installing my add-on aircraft to a location outside of P3D root.

I cobbled together a "method" for semi-automating the process (with a couple of batch files). All described here: https://www.nzfsim.org/fsx-p3d-tweaks/add-ons-outside-p3d-root/

It looks overly complex at first sight - but it's really quite simple in practice. I just had to "over-explain" it all to cover all bases (and levels of user expertise). I can usually install one in a couple of minutes.

Adam.
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Your method seems easier than the one I read over at Avsim by @poppet in the P3D forum (addon xml), Adam.
Thank-you for the link for future referrence.

My main concern with sims is what to do when space on the drive (SSD) is running low. This will become a more common issue in the future as developers are constantly improving the visual quality of addons, hence increasing the GB's they use up on the drive. I read in a forum post st SOH, that if your sim is on a separate, dedicated drive outside of the main OS drive, then the process of moving everything to a larger drive is as easy as installing the new, larger drive, copy/paste everything over to the new drive, then going back and re-naming the new drive to the same letter as the old, smaller drive, and you're done. This is perhaps, IMHO, the biggest advantage of having the sim on a separate, dedicated drive.
 
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