Turn Off Indexing on SSD, ? Access Denied ?

[KuLee]

Disk indexing is for shortening the time to access files on hard disk drive. But SSD itself has a much shorter response time than HDD, which is about 0.1 ms. Thus there’s no need to enable disk indexing for SSD.
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So I Disabled Indexing on my SSD to boost performance but i have a problem

When i try to Edit my host

I get an error Access Denied it also wont let me install any custom Fonts
im not allowed to change anything in font folder

Enabled indexing again and then i am able to edit anything in my pc

There is anything i can do to keep indexing off and actually edit
my files to without Access Denied error?

 

[MarkW]

I think you tried to fix a problem that did not exist to start with. Indexing is ALWAYS a good thing. Indexes are designed to make it faster to find any given file. So if you have a faster storage medium, like an SSD, the index will be written out almost instantly. And when it needs to find a file, it will also be found almost instantly.

Without the index, it has to crawl through the data that NTFS uses one entry at a time until it finds the one file you want.

 

[KuLee]

I think you tried to fix a problem that did not exist to start with. Indexing is ALWAYS a good thing. Indexes are designed to make it faster to find any given file. So if you have a faster storage medium, like an SSD, the index will be written out almost instantly. And when it needs to find a file, it will also be found almost instantly.

Without the index, it has to crawl through the data that NTFS uses one entry at a time until it finds the one file you want.

im not using the windows search so this feature is not useful to me

 

[kyzarvs]

I'd be interested to see if you can see *any* 'performance boost' by turning off indexing - even If you don't use it, you aren't going to notice it being built as it's a background task. You've probably spent more time creating this topic than you'll save in the SSD's life by turning off indexing 😉

 

[KuLee]

I'd be interested to see if you can see *any* 'performance boost' by turning off indexing - even If you don't use it, you aren't going to notice it being built as it's a background task. You've probably spent more time creating this topic than you'll save in the SSD's life by turning off indexing 😉

Well im not an expert on that topic thats why i asked you guys in first place i been told to turn it off for performance boost and there are tons of website that says that to ( i really didnt see any performance boost tho )

 

[kyzarvs]

So leave it on, don't worry about it and then you can edit your fonts.

Flipping the question the other way - what aspect of your SSD's performance do you feel needs improving? Might help find out where to target work to give gains you'll actually notice.