Thanks for the links -- one pro-tip that stood out to me was to use the D: drive (because it's likely to have less filter drivers attached). "Windows's IO stac

Thanks for the links -- one pro-tip that stood out to me was to use the D: drive (because it's likely to have less filter drivers attached). "Windows's IO stack is extensible, allowing filter drivers to attach to volumes and intercept IO requests before the file system sees them. This is used for numerous things, including virus scanning, compression, encryption, file virtualization, things like OneDrive's files on demand feature, gathering pre-fetching data to speed up app startup, and much more. Even a clean install of Windows will have a number of filters present, particularly on the system volume (so if you have a D: drive or partition, I recommend using that instead, since it likely has fewer filters attached). Filters are involved in many IO operations, most notably creating/opening files."