{"id":49481,"date":"2014-09-30T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=49481"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:17:07","slug":"dont-solid-state-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/dont-solid-state-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways You Might Harm Your Solid State Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">3 things you should never do to your solid state drives.&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<h4>3 Ways You Might Harm Your Solid State Drive<\/h4>\n<p>By Vamsi Krishna for MakeTechEasier<\/p>\n<p>When compared to the regular mechanical hard drives, Solid State Drives (SSDs) are pretty different and give you a performance boost in regards of boot time and application load time. SSDs work quite differently out of the box by employing NAND-based flash memory rather than using the moving mechanical parts like in the regular hard drives. Like any other electronic devices, SSDs also come with their own weaknesses (other than the heavy price tag) too. If you are using an SSD on your Windows machine, here are the three things that you have to take note of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Don\u2019t Use Index Feature in Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whenever you lose track of a file or folder, you can use theWindows search feature to track those files or folders. To improve the search function in Windows, an indexing service runs in the background to keep track of all the file and folder changes. As this service updates its database regularly, it results in a lot of writes on your SSD and may eventually degrade the performance. Even though this background service is very helpful in faster indexing and searching, the Windows search function runs just fine even when you disable the indexing service. Since it is recommended that you disable this service on your SSD, the steps are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>To disable indexing in Windows, right click on your SSD and select \u201cProperties\u201d from the list of options. 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