Comment by setquk

But that’s not the case. The root cause is the MFT and NTFS architecture. People fail to mention that because the problem is harder to fix. It’s almost that there is a “do not speak bad of NTFS” going on.

You can demonstrate this by using a third party file system driver for NT. when NTFS on its own is eliminated the performance is much much better. This is a neat little differential analysis which is conclusive. I can’t remember the product I used when I evaluated this about 8 years ago unfortunately.