Ways of speeding up filewalker on NTFS

You may also:

  1. Defragment the disk and enable the automatic defragmentation if you disabled it (it’s enabled by default)
  2. NTFS Disable 8dot3name
  3. disable access time: [Solved] Win10 20GB Ram Usage - #17 by arrogantrabbit
  4. Try to add an SSD as a tiered storage:

And @Roxor mentioned, there is a new experimental feature for caching in the nearest release.

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