NTFS has horrible small file performance, to the extent that if you are working on a project that has lots of small files (NodeJS for example) you can expect pe

NTFS has horrible small file performance, to the extent that if you are working on a project that has lots of small files (NodeJS for example) you can expect performance that is 2-3x worse than on other file systems. Even unzipping archives with lots of small files takes forever, it is easy for a modern SSD to slow down to 5MB/s or less when trying to write out tons of small files to an NTFS partition. NTFS is old and stable, but it is not fast by modern standards.