Why turn off indexing on SSD when you can just move the indexing location?
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kenrivers
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Yes, you can move it to another drive. The biggest reason I have seen for turning off Indexing on a SSD drive the speed of the drive itself. In other words you won't see much of a gain, speed wise, in searching since the SSD is so fast anyway.
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You're correct, argitoth, you will still see a considerable boost to search speeds with a properly built index. This especially holds true if you have any mechanical hard drives in your system (which is very likely). I wouldn't worry too much about the search index either way. The amount of writes you would save is fairly negligible, but the search performance would still suffer.
If nothing else, simply moving it to another drive is still a great solution. You don't have to worry about extra drive wear at all then, and you still get blazing fast searches.
If nothing else, simply moving it to another drive is still a great solution. You don't have to worry about extra drive wear at all then, and you still get blazing fast searches.
Yep, indexing has brought search from molasses slow to literally instantaneous. The index is stored on the SSD currently. I should see what happens when I store it on an external drive. I don't often write files to the SSD... maybe google cache and starcraft 2 makes writes, but that's about it. Thus, indexing wouldn't create constant writes to re-index files, and I can simply disable those locations for indexing... so again I ask a rhetorical question, what's the big deal?
I moved the indexing to an external HD and I think the search takes half a second longer than instantaneous. This is fast enough for me. I'm going to index index my entire computer! I'm moving the index location to a local HD now. I have indexed 83,000 files so far and the index folder is less than 400mb. I have thousands more files to index. I'll report back once the indexing is finished. I constantly need to search for stuff on my computer so this will be worth it.
I have indexed 443,000 files, index is 1.32GB, my computer has 903.5GB of data.
Search is instantaneous. I can't live without this. Who started this rumor that you should turn indexing off if you have an SSD in your system? Rhetorical question.
TURN INDEXING ON, AND INDEX YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Search is instantaneous. I can't live without this. Who started this rumor that you should turn indexing off if you have an SSD in your system? Rhetorical question.
TURN INDEXING ON, AND INDEX YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
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