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> NT’s approach to file systems makes many file system operations very slow

This is due to the file system filters. It shows when using DevDrive where there are significant performance improvements.

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Great! I’m thinking of adding a new SSD to my machine and would love to try this out.

You can provision a VHDX on your pre-existing NTFS volume (IIRC VHDX overhead is <=1% for Hyper-V, not sure if that's still the case and/or applies to DevDrive). But yes, I would say an additional drive is ideal. I did just that to put games on DevDrive.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/#set-up-...

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