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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by jki275 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:57AM (#18192735)
It's not NTFS -- it's Windows Defender's Realtime protection.
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Re:Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data by setquk on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:47AM (#18193012)
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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