Should I Turn Off Windows Search Index With SSD

Should I Turn Off Windows Search Index With SSD

Another myth on the internet is whether to turn off Windows Search Index when you have a SSD. Myself, I have never seen or had any problems with leaving the windows search feature enabled. Rather than turn it off, why not just move it to another drive. Disabling Windows Search Indexer is another one of them optimizing your SSD tweaks that just don't work or are counter productive. I use Windows Search feature all the time and with all my drives indexed, I can find files right away. Now if I have the search Indexing turned off, I would have to craw the whole drive to find my file that I am looking for. So I don't see by doing this how I am speeding up my computer, also I have never had my pc low down from having this feature enabled. Looking to claim back space from disabling Windows Search Index? for what you claim back, its not worth it in my honest opinion, I would rather buy a larger SSD. Another problem people claim is that it writes to the SSD shorting the life of the SSD, this is simply not true and I have seen no evidence to support this claim. At the end of the day, its your PC and you should do what you find suits your needs.

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[bison]

Brian one reason why I love your video's is not just for the technical knowledge, but because of the common sense that comes with it. Keep it up my man. Don.

[veraxis]

I generally disable the indexing service because I don't do searches of my entire drive very often; I can usually remember where I put a file to within a directory or subfolder, and I do, in fact, notice a performance difference from having it off. I often notice that when I create a new folder, put some files into it, then go to set the name of said folder, windows will throw an error because the folder is "in use" by the indexing service, and I will not be able to set the name of the folder for possibly up to a minute or two. I also cannot confirm, but I believe I have also seen performance stutter in Windows which seems to go away when I disable Cortana's functions and disable indexing. This is on an SSD.

[gordonalcindor]

This is one of those things that I say....its simple ...just give it a try and see if it works for you. Turn indexing off for say 2 to 3 months, if you have no problems and not pulling out your hair then fine, leave it off. However if you realize you were more productive with indexing turned on, then turn it back on. Cheers

[awvalenti]

Nice explanations, thanks! I leave it on for main drive but off for the backup files drive. This last one has lots of images, but they have generic names, so an indexed search wouldn't be useful.

[GregM]

Moving the index file to a rotational drive is a good point and as I said previously when sorting a directory listing showing Detail view by clicking on columns to sort by that column disabling search indexing causes a progress bar to take a bit of time to progress through even on an SSD drive. Enabling the search indexing makes this sorting instantaneous. I also use Everything from Voidtools as well to find files. Also, there is FileLocator Pro a paid app or FileLocator Lite with fewer features to search for files. I search for files frequently using various means over multiple hard drives every day.

[SC-hkui]

I agree. You do see some HDD activation on secondary drives when your computer wakes up, but that only last for a second and hardly uses any resources.

[the_DeadEye]

In my opinion, it has very little to do with the hardware. Its basically what you prefer (what the user does on the system).
I rarely ever use the search function in windows, I always navigate to the files, so i disable it, however small the benefit it might give.
But I leave it enabled on regular users where they constantly create, edit, search new documents, new emails etc, because its essential for them to get search results ASAP. HDD or SSD, regardless of space occupied or hardware life spent, it keeps thing sped up.

[gamblerfls]

I've been noticing Windows logs and indexers are doing too much SSD writes. I never download anything to my windows SSD other than Windows updates, and from the start I moved browser caches and game saves to an HDD drive. It's been a year of usage and the SSD software is saying its lifetime (40TBW) is at 65%. So my advice is, if there's something slowly killing your SSD and you aren't using it, just disable it. If you organize your important files, you really won't need the search index function.

[patmat.]

FYI You disable indexing because it reduced the lifetime of your SSD by constantly write on it.
Plus Indexing don't let me 'eject' external USB drives, even when their properties has indexing turned off.
Thirdly, enough with MS nonsense, we should look for a file in the "File Explorer".

[BradleyDScott]

David Price has made an excellent, argumentative, point.

Have you searched for files with Indexing both, "ON" and "OFF"?

Were the times significantly different between the two?

What was the size of the, "Index File", you were using for comparisons?

(Perhaps it's better to leave it "OFF"", if you have less then "x" amount of files (for example, 500, 000 files), but, performance IS increased, by leaving Indexing "ON", if you have more then "x" of files, to search?)

[calmac]

I've never used it and TBH it seems quite useful especially with how irritating quick access can be. At least because these questions were raised I now know that I have an option to turn it off.
With the extent of data growth in software I think most of us will have upgraded the size of our SSD's and eventually PC's before we have to worry about the now current SSD wearing out.
I think you would have to be pretty unlucky if your SSD wore out but saying that you should be backing your files up?
I have a serious question though In your opinion should you leave you PC on continually or turn it off when not in use? 😁👍

[matthewday]

Oh nice, never knew that was one of the moveable things, always assumed it did it per drive

[larrytaylor]

Agree 100% with you use computers to speed everyday mundane tasks up Thanks, great video.

[hazelkitty]

I think the Windows Search indexer service often triggers the Windows interrupt service and it causes poor stability in games. If the index is a 1gb file then that means the cpu has to read and write to a 1gb file randomly at any moment. Of course the only time it's going to read or write is when you're changing the index, which is when you are working. But I find that this program could be optimized better and Microsoft should re-write their interrupt service.

[cls]

Hello Sir, which options best for the server os like File Server ?? Should i disable or enable in File Seever Windows 2019 ? Plz guide me..

[stevelarkin]

Excellent video brian im glad you explained what it was all about its obvious some people may benefit from disabling and some not so
its always good to have someone to explain both sides thank you

[platterjockey]

I constantly use the search feature, and use a program called "Everything. I find it to be a much faster program that doesn't tie down recourses.

[jason]

Nice to see an objective take on this, I like Carey, but sometimes he makes it sound like his way is right and everyone else's way is wrong.

[amelliamendel]

It's 2019, would like info about nvme boot drive not SSD's. I have a Samsung 970 pro 512gb for my boot drive. I just use SSD for games. Is there a way to set it per drive. I also have a super slow 2tb HDD. That I don't really use except for backups. My question is does it speed up the time it takes to make a restore point. It takes me almost a whole minute to make a restore point. Great video thanks.