SSDs, indexing, GD and Windows 7

[DukeN]

So I took the plunge and plunked in a 60GB Vertex in my W500 with a fresh Windows 7 install.

So far so great, this is the best upgrade I have done in a long time.

However, the one thing I'm a bit concerned about is search and indexing. In the past, I loved google desktop on XP and didn't have to worry about the Indexing that Windows did.

According to OCZ, they recommend disabling drive and search indexing - something that I can't live without, especially the Google Destop app.

Anyone have any insights or recommendations, as to why this is bad and should be turned off?

Thanks

 

[aka1nas]

You don't really need to apply any of the tweaks to a Indilinx or Intel-based SSD. They are mostly intended for the crappy JMicron-based drives which don't handle multiple simultaneous writes very well.

You can optionally still disable the indexing on that drive if you want, the seek time is so much faster than a traditional drive that you won't notice much a performance difference.

 

[jimhsu]

I personally leave indexing on for a small amount of folders (for that lovely Start menu search as you type feature), then use Everything for ... well everything else. As it indexes the MFT directly, it is the fastest search engine every built. If you don't need full text search (and you know if you do), Everything is so much faster than anything out there that's it's not funny anymore.

Indexing time: um... 6 seconds (400 gigs)?
Search time: sub-reaction threshold (<0.1s)

 

[taltamir]

windows 7 does everything automatically for SSDs with the exception of turning on AHCI for you, that you need to do yourself (before installing windows)...
Even then, the "optimizations" are a bunch of bull... all those optimizations should really say is "put X on the fastest drive you have", or "disable it on extremely slow drives"
If you have a jmicron, it is extremely slow, so you need to disable things, or put them on a spindle drive.
With a vertex, it is FASTER than any spindle drive, so you don't need to disable anything, AND you should put pagefile etc all on the VERTEX instead of a spindle drive. Moving your pagefile to vertex INCREASES performance... because it wan'ts the fastest drive, and unlike the jmicron, the vertex is actually worthwhile.