An External Hard Drive

[Michael Hodge Jr 961044]

I downloaded the X-plane demo, and i must say i think i'm in love lol. I ordered the full version (60gig). Would it be advisable to put all that on an external hardrive, my reg hardrive has 170gig, with 100g empty (before install). I like the external harddrive option, though i'm curious as to how much it will degrade the preformance.

[Andreas Boeckle 876831]

Welcome to the (real) world! Hope you like it, Micheal.

 

I would not do that.

 

Starting X-Plane should not be much of a problem.

But XP is loading the scenery and maybe some custom airports every few minutes and that could be slower via an external drive than the internal one.

 

What you could do is to install the whole pack and copy that to the external harddrive also. Then check out both versions and check for the speed, frames.

 

I never tried it from an external one, but XP is so hungry for performance that I belief that the internal one is best joice.

[Peter Nolin 954217]

I'd have to agree. Actually I would even recommend using internal SATA drives instead of IDE for extra joy.

 

And congratulations for taking this step, you won't be dissapointed, atleast if you can step into the XP world with an open mind. No, you don't get alot of smart AI aircrafts, XSquawkbox is well behind the Squawkbox made for FS9 but it does work. You won't get buildings at airports but it is downloadable for atleast the bigger ports. XP has a very talanted community if you ask me.

 

I would recommend you to instantly join the x-plane.org and xplanefreeware.net communitys and hang in the forums. You'll get alot of help and free software from a experienced community.

[Michael Hodge Jr 961044]

Thanks once again I thank you for the help! P.s I installed it on regular SATA drive, it actually works quite well!