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It's not NTFS -- it's Windows Defender's Realtime protection.



If you turn it off it still runs like ass. I have spent hours on this one even down to fsutil tuning and I can't get more than about a 10% improvement.

This is because the small files are stored on the MFT which is global read/write locked.




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