Indexing should be unchecked for your SSD drive but you'll probably want to enable it for your mechanical drives. Note that you do not want to disable the Windows indexing service. Some SSD optimizing utilities will do this.
Where do I find the Windows Indexing service ? That is not the checkbox in the drives properties I am talking about ? Is it the indexing found in the Control Panel perhaps ?
Thank you for answering . Yes, I just wanted to be sure that it was the file indexing under drive properties I'm supposed to turn off. But one more question : What does this indexing do when its turned on ? Whats its purpose? I read something about faster filesearching. Is that correct ? And the reason to turn it off is because the SSD drive is so fast that its not nessesary ?
Indexing is the way Windows keeps track of files for searches. So of course, when you want to play a song or open a document, you normally tap the Windows key and enter the title and the file pops right up, rather than navigate through a bunch of folders looking for the file. You don't need it on an SSD because they're much faster.
Please read the dialog carefully. I guess you mean the checkbox 'Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties'.
You absolutely do not want to turn this off, even with a SSD. This allows you to search within files (like *.docx, *.txt and so on - depends on your settings from which file types you index the contents). I have found this extremely useful and even on a SSD the speed is bad when you try to perform such searched without having this indexed.
Seriously, your SSD will last lang enough under normal usage, there is no need to minimize IO at a usability cost in non-server hardware.
I just unchecked the box. My drive is my only drive a ssdnvme on a laptablet. it took a while so it must have indexed a lot of the wrong files, in fact I tried to selectively ignore or (cancel?) for a while. I saw .sys files indexed. Got this system geek squad open box. it is STILL applying the change 5 min later. I don't save much on this system. I will let you know how it goes. I think we just freed up a lot of space and made searches faster.
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August 16th, 2014 16:00
Hi Bpinnsvin,
Indexing should be unchecked for your SSD drive but you'll probably want to enable it for your mechanical drives. Note that you do not want to disable the Windows indexing service. Some SSD optimizing utilities will do this.
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August 17th, 2014 04:00
Where do I find the Windows Indexing service ? That is not the checkbox in the drives properties I am talking about ? Is it the indexing found in the Control Panel perhaps ?
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August 17th, 2014 06:00
It's in services. As I said, leave the indexing service running.
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Thank you for answering . Yes, I just wanted to be sure that it was the file indexing under drive properties I'm supposed to turn off. But one more question : What does this indexing do when its turned on ? Whats its purpose? I read something about faster filesearching. Is that correct ? And the reason to turn it off is because the SSD drive is so fast that its not nessesary ?
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August 17th, 2014 14:00
Indexing is the way Windows keeps track of files for searches. So of course, when you want to play a song or open a document, you normally tap the Windows key and enter the title and the file pops right up, rather than navigate through a bunch of folders looking for the file. You don't need it on an SSD because they're much faster.
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August 19th, 2014 16:00
Please read the dialog carefully.
I guess you mean the checkbox 'Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties'.
You absolutely do not want to turn this off, even with a SSD.
This allows you to search within files (like *.docx, *.txt and so on - depends on your settings from which file types you index the contents).
I have found this extremely useful and even on a SSD the speed is bad when you try to perform such searched without having this indexed.
Seriously, your SSD will last lang enough under normal usage, there is no need to minimize IO at a usability cost in non-server hardware.
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August 19th, 2014 17:00
Hi Benmanran,
Most users have only the OS and applications on the SSD so disabling indexing doesn't really impact the ability to search user files.
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I just unchecked the box. My drive is my only drive a ssdnvme on a laptablet. it took a while so it must have indexed a lot of the wrong files, in fact I tried to selectively ignore or (cancel?) for a while. I saw .sys files indexed. Got this system geek squad open box. it is STILL applying the change 5 min later. I don't save much on this system. I will let you know how it goes. I think we just freed up a lot of space and made searches faster.