Comment by PaulHoule
12 hours ago
Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.
12 hours ago
Just deleting 40,000 files from the node_modules of a modest Javascript project can thoroughly hammer NTFS.
I think part of that is Explorer, rather than NTFS. Try doing it from the console instead. rd /q /s <dir>.
It still takes a lot longer than Linux or Mac OS X.
NTFS is definitely slower to modify file system structures than ext4.
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