Windows 10: Is there a way to disable indexing of certain external drives?

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    Is there a way to disable indexing of certain external drives?


    I have recently purchased an external 4TB USB HDD. Using it as a backup, that means it's been more than half full from the start, and I need to be able to just connect it to any PC and update the backups quickly. The problem is that Windows 10 starts indexing the drive as soon as I plug it in, eating about 20% of CPU and a lot of disk usage, and I can't even safely unplug the HDD until I kill the indexing process.There are two problems:1. I need Windows Search to still index all of my local drives, therefore disabling extending indexing isn't an option. And even though I allocated fixed drive

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