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Samsung EVO 850 Indexing Win 8.1

icecoldblue
By icecoldblue
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Hi guys,

 

I built a new PC a couple weeks ago and I have a Samsung EVO 850 250gb as my boot drive and a 2 TB WD Black as my data drive. I also have Samsung Magician installed and it optimized the performance, and Windows takes care of the whole TRIM thing as well. Long story short, I was wondering if there is any need to turn off indexing on my SSD(it's enabled by default for both drives in Win 8.1). I googled this a bunch and most of the results are from 2 years ago when there were still concerns about SSD max writes and trying to "preserve" the number of writes you had remaining or w/e. 

 

So what do you think....keep the box checked or uncheck it? I'd rather just keep it checked if it doesn't really affect performance/longevity of my SSD. Let me know! Thanks

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I can assure you sir, your SSD will not suddenly fail because of overwriting the drive.

There have been torture tests writing thousands of Terabytes and the drives still live.

Just don't worry and enjoy the speed and keep it like it is right now.

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Hi guys,

 

I built a new PC a couple weeks ago and I have a Samsung EVO 850 250gb as my boot drive and a 2 TB WD Black as my data drive. I also have Samsung Magician installed and it optimized the performance, and Windows takes care of the whole TRIM thing as well. Long story short, I was wondering if there is any need to turn off indexing on my SSD(it's enabled by default for both drives in Win 8.1). I googled this a bunch and most of the results are from 2 years ago when there were still concerns about SSD max writes and trying to "preserve" the number of writes you had remaining or w/e. 

 

So what do you think....keep the box checked or uncheck it? I'd rather just keep it checked if it doesn't really affect performance/longevity of my SSD. Let me know! Thanks

I have unchecked mine, mostly because SSDs are already really good at random reads so you don't really need a tag associated with every singe file.

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SSD's endurance relates only to writing as reading doesn't effect its life span at all. (For more on SSD's endurance, Check the link 

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