Logos 5 Bible Software indexing and SSD drive

How I can stop LOGOS 5 indexing in windows 7, because SSD drive doesn't need any indexing. Actually in settings in windows 7 defragmentation is disabled, but how I can do it to Logos 5 INDEXING !!!!! It informs it is indexing and sometimes it is doing it quite long time depending on size of updates. Looking forward hear some good solutions. Indexing is harmful for SSD drives.

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Keijo

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John Goodman

Hi Keijo,

Indexing is not the same as defrag. What indexing does is builds or updates a database of keywords and links between your logos content. It is very unlikely that this would be harmful to your drive because it is a cumulative operation. It makes very fast searching possible.

Also modern ssd drives are much more robust than first gen ones were.

Hope that helps,

John

Dave Hooton

Actually in settings in windows 7 defragmentation is disabled, but how I can do it to Logos 5 INDEXING

As John stated Logos indexing is not essentially harmful to an SSD drive nor to a Hard drive. It is intensive though and can task a mechanical hard drive, whilst the amount of writes will not shorten the life of recent SSD's if maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's guidelines e.g. Intel recommend running their Optimizer routine every week.

Keijo Airaksinen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544206#Comment_544206

Hi John,

Thank you very much for a good piece of advice and information. In this case "I will not be anxious for nothing".

Kind Regards

Keijo

Keijo Airaksinen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/544390#Comment_544390

Hi Dave,

A lot of thanks for good additional information, I am not very familiar with these kinds of complex things and of course my english language skills are in this area limited. But I am learning. My old laptop refreshed quite a lot after changing SSD drive.It is like a new now.

Kind Regards

Keijo

Noah

Even though some of the responses you received are partially accurate, it is also worthy to note that Logos 5 could have an option to turn indexing off since modern SSDs are fast enough not to need indexing.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/588176#Comment_588176

it is also worthy to note that Logos 5 could have an option to turn indexing off since modern SSDs are fast enough not to need indexing.

Logos indexing cannot be turned "off" just because you have an SSD drive as the current design depends on these indexes for searching. Logos 3 (Libronix) used indexes that were part of each resource in the lbxlls format. The current logos4 format has no index.

However, I have both applications on a Win 7 laptop with an SSD, so let me give you an idea of search speeds (on battery power).

Basic search for God: Libronix 5.7s for 35770 hits in 16 resources. Logos 5 took 4.5s for over 1.6 million hits in 1124 resources
Basic search for God AND Jesus: 9s for 19407 / 12 vs. 6.5s for 1.15 million / 1054

EDIT: the time was measured with a stop watch until results began to appear. My Libronix library is 16 resources vs. 1175 in Logos 5. The times with power on were much faster but didn't affect the trend you see above i.e. Logos was faster!

Kent

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/588186#Comment_588186

With a very slow 1.4 Ghz non ssd 13 sec. over 3 million hits.