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Indexing external USB drives

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When I install an external hard drive I see in the properties for that drive the option to "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties".  My question is should this be left on (default) or unchecked?  Does Acronis TrueImage keep it's own indexes?  I would think that if TI is doing the indexing and this option was turned off the throughput would be considerably faster as there would only be one process indexing .

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Indexing is only used by Windows for that external drive.  Acronis does not use that Windows index to my knowledge and has its own mechanisms for changed block tracking etc.