Partitioning

[Brogs]

I,m thinking of Partitioning my Hard Drive with a view to isolating FS9 and related simming S/Ware to try and improve my Performance and Ram Usage, would Partitioning do the Job ?

[Jay Eklund]

In short, No. Putting FS on a totally separate drive will relieve drive contention somewhat but don't look for a vast improvement in FPS or visuals.

[peter]

I would suggest you det you get "ultimiate defrag" - With this you can place the files you want on the outside of the drive - this will maximize performance.

[esurfman]

Mike, if you want to go faster, put 2 or more hard drives on Raid 0 at 10,000 rpm each. That will go faster.

[Brogs]

Thanks Fella,s think you might enjoy this.

SHORT FINAL

Overheard in IFR Magazine's "On the Air"


While on a trip in a Grumman Cheetah from Marathon, Florida Keys to Exuma in the Bahamas, I ran into a large area of clouds hanging over Andros Island. They'd been classified as benign when I'd received my weather briefing about an hour and a half earlier. I penetrated with a warning from Miami Center:

Miami Center:
"Grumman XXXXX, I show a large area of weather ahead of you. How would you like to proceed?"

Grumman:
"My Stormscope shows it's not active. I'll continue on course."

[a few minutes later]

Miami Center:
"Grumman XXXXX, say flight conditions."

Grumman:
"It's a little bumpy, but other than that it's fine."

[a few minutes later, after it suddenly turned active]

Grumman:
"Miami Center, Grumman XXXXX, experiencing ... severe ... turbulence. Request ... lower."

[I went up and down at about 2000 feet per minute. The Stormscope lit up all around us. We were tossed on our side.]

Miami Center:
"Grumman XXXXX, unable lower at this time. I'll have to call Nassau to get lower."

I righted the airplane. Everything flew around the cockpit. I saw a hole and aimed for it.

[a few minutes later]

Grumman:
"Miami Center, Grumman XXXXX, we're out of the weather now. Sorry about the deviation, but I could not hold altitude or course."

Miami Center:
"Not a problem, I understand."

A passing airliner overheard this ...

Airliner:
"Miami, Airliner XXXX, that guy that penetrated the weather over Andros — what kind of airplane did he say he was flying?"

Miami Center:
"A Grumman."

Airliner:
"Like a big Grumman?"

Miami Center:
"No, like a little Grumman Cheetah.

Airliner:
"A Cheetah? Wow, he's got a lot of balls."

Miami Center:
Airliner XXXX, I'm sorry, sir, you broke up. Say again?

Airliner:
"I said, he's got a lot of balls."

Miami Center:
"Airliner XXXX, I'm sorry, sir, you are coming in broken up again. I believe you said (ahem) that he was a very brave man?"

Bob Brayman Marathon
Florida Keys