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Re: Help us test FoxTrot Search 7's performance increases [message #959 is a reply to message #958] Thu, 12 December 2019 18:27 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hello,

The very first thing I would suggest is that you store your indices not on a fusion drive but on an SSD. That should make a difference.

And yes, remaining under 10GB per index, while not an exact value, will indeed produce better performance than 21GB.

Regards,

jean michel/ctm qa

> On 12 Dec 2019, at 17:38, 'Ajk Sanders' via foxtrot-search wrote:
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> ?
> FWIW I have 12 folders on an external SSD catalogued. They total 1.9TB for 225,600 items.
> The indexes are stored on the internal HD, which is a fusion drive (in the Library folder).
> The indexes are 50GB in size, the biggest is 21GB and has indexed 111,500 items.
> (I haven't yet tried rebuilding that one with the new beta).
>
> Are you suggesting I would get better/faster results if all indexes were under 10GB?
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