SSD hard drive question (Page 2): Turn OFF "Index this drive for faster searching" Uncheck the box marked thus on the hard drive properties. The read/writes performed in "indexing" are...

Kuzano

Turn OFF "Index this drive for faster searching"

Uncheck the box marked thus on the hard drive properties.

The read/writes performed in "indexing" are harmful to SSD drives, just as "defrag" and many third party utilities that reshuffle files on hard drives.

We've had these utilities on IDE and SATA hard drives so long, they get (got) overlooked as far as removing or not using them on SSD drives.

Bill MN Loc: Western MN

Nothing works. Turned off the indexing. I think I done a very good job deleting them. I did take a picture of my screen email address's before install the SSD. I just have to add them back. Good way to clean out the mess. Thanks for every ones help.

Phreedom Loc: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Bill MN wrote:

Is anyone else having trouble with the SSD hard drive? I lost all my email address's. Doing a search comes up with nothing. I bought one of the cheaper ones. Is that the problem? I have never lost email address's before.

The Samsung SSD's are highly rated.

Do you mean you lost all your addresses after installing the new SSD and reimaging the old HD to it?
Or have you been using the SSD and the addresses just recently vanished?

Did you do any updating at the time your address list disappeared?

Have you tried to do a system restore from the time of any possible updates or prior to the addresses disappearing?

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

ralphc4176 wrote:

I have one SSD in my desktop machine. It has performed flawlessly. Two main caveats: no SSD that I'm aware of has an infinite life--they all have a maximum number of read/writes before "death." Also, beware of operations that you may have used on HDDs, like SpeedDisk or Diskeeper or similar programs; they can be great for HDDs but are bad for SSDs, causing needless and unnecessary read/writes.

Also, SSDs have some tendency to randomly have sections 'go blank' if you don't use them for too long. How long is too long depends on the temperature. If kept in an uncomfortably cool room, they can go years. If stored in a hot car, they could start losing data in a few days. I had been bringing my spare travel laptop to work and leaving it in the car a few weeks ago without running it, when my work computer was flaky and I thought I might need to use it as a spare, and one day, when I tried to run it, it wouldn't boot. I had to use a rescue disc to rewrite the boot sector. Then it worked fine. I did reinstall all of my important user files and check the function of all the 'mission critical' software.

That's when I researched the issue.

That said, I'm not going back to spinning rust in that computer because it's old enough to need the SSD's speed.

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

Kuzano wrote:

Turn OFF "Index this drive for faster searching"

Uncheck the box marked thus on the hard drive properties.

The read/writes performed in "indexing" are harmful to SSD drives, just as "defrag" and many third party utilities that reshuffle files on hard drives.

We've had these utilities on IDE and SATA hard drives so long, they get (got) overlooked as far as removing or not using them on SSD drives.

Precisely, you do not want to defragment an SSD. They switch electronically so there's no track-to-track latency-- the time it takes to switch from reading/writing one section of the chip to doing so on some other part of the chip(s) is negligible in comparison to the time it takes to do it by running mechanical heads over spinning platters. So there's no disadvantage to having fragmented files on an SSD. And, as others have mentioned, defragging causes a lot of unnecessary writing to the disc, and that will kill it prematurely.

Bill MN Loc: Western MN

I found the problem and gave myself 20 lashes with a wet noodle.

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Bill MN wrote:

I found the problem and gave myself 20 lashes with a wet noodle.

So. What was the problem?
Inquiring minds want to know.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Bill MN wrote:

Is anyone else having trouble with the SSD hard drive? I lost all my email address's. Doing a search comes up with nothing. I bought one of the cheaper ones. Is that the problem? I have never lost email address's before.

SSD's normally don't fail by bits. If it is still working, it is ok. If it isn't working, it is dead. No real in-between with SSD drives.

I suspect the loss of your data is probably a software or user problem?

bwa

Bill MN Loc: Western MN

Indi wrote:

So. What was the problems.
Inquiring minds want to know.

Me :oops:

Indi Loc: L. I., NY, Palm Beach Cty when it's cold.

Bill MN wrote:

Me :oops:

Not willing to reveal the error of your ways, eh? :lol:

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

PEBCAK

Indi wrote:

Not willing to reveal the error of your ways, eh? :lol:

Phreedom Loc: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Bill MN wrote:

Me :oops:

Don't be shy. Tell all.

Bill MN Loc: Western MN

Wish I knew what was done but I clicked on something I shouldn't have. I remember working on deleting old email. Next day I was going to send an email but the address's were gone. I don't have a dog so they weren't eaten I don't think.

GENorkus Loc: Washington Twp, Michigan

FYI:

One poster mentioned ssd's having a life span. No doubt that is true. But if you look into the Samsung PRO SSD models, they have a factory warrenty of ten years.

Ten years is a very long time in the computer world. (Can anyone even pridict what method of storage we'll be using in ten years?)

Samsung has two type ssd. The Pro and the EVO models. The EVO is like most everyones ssd. The PRO model has the new 3-D design. That is only found in the Samsung line of ssd's. It is also claimed as the fastest ssd, and as mentioned prior, comes with a 10 year warrenty.