If you're up to run Windows 11 dev builds, try Dev Drive [0] which uses ReFS on another partition, volume, or virtual disk (VHDX), by default with 4KiB clusters

If you're up to run Windows 11 dev builds, try Dev Drive [0] which uses ReFS on another partition, volume, or virtual disk (VHDX), by default with 4KiB clusters (! big ReFS change) and has a couple modes: * Windows Defender running async rather than sync when reading/writing files * Windows Defender completely disabled (along with other file system filters) This volume is intended for code only, but you can put other workloads on the Dev Drive. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/