Windows NTFS file system Vs XFS (Linux) speed

Hi there
Tested on identical hardware (Same machine in fact).

booted up W10 20H2 (latest skip ahead) on to SSD

Copy one 4 GB mkv file from SSD to SATA 4 TB HDD -- speed running at average 212.4 Mib/s

Booted up on same computer Linux Centos 7.6 to same SSD after wiping Windows from it.
Copied same 4GB MKV from SSD --this time in XFS format file to SATA HDD -- although it was 4 X 4 TB RAID array in Software RAID 0 config --- speed running at average of 784.7 Mib/s

Now not sure if the file system is the problem with Windows or the fact that RAID 0 makes a huge difference -- note software RAID -- haven't got any hardware RAID controllers on this hardware.

If it's the RAID software subsystem making the difference then it seems to me that Windows instead of spending loads of time on rubbish things (IMO though) such as emoji's and trivial differences to how the search system is presented etc should be implementing some type of sensible software RAID sub system --- Don't even think of mentioning that abomination they have called Storage Spaces - that breaks even before you THINK about enabling it !!!!.

Personally I think the biggest current bottleneck in the entire Windows OS is the I/O subsystem -- a re-vamp here would surely pay huge dividends.

Note --standard Disk to Disk file transfer using File explorer on Windows or Dolphin on Linux --both bog standard file managers. No Networking / Samba stuff used in the test.

Otherwise W10 20H2 seems to be working fine --just wish that they would have added a load more interesting features - especially if it's meant to be a future version of Windows --that's where they could test these things out like RAID / different file systems etc without impacting people on current releases of Windows.

Cheers
jimbo

How about creating a striped volume (RAID 0) through Disk Management rather than Storage Spaces or have they removed this in 20H2? Have not played with 20xx as yet.

hsehestedt said:

How about creating a striped volume (RAID 0) through Disk Management rather than Storage Spaces or have they removed this in 20H2? Have not played with 20xx as yet.

Hi there

@hsehestedt

I will have a look at that later as I never thought of that option -- definitely the bog standard Windows fs (file system) needs some improving considering the really large (and cheap) HDD's out there now -- when small self powered 4 TB and internal decent 9 TB storage systems are available a file system devised for a 20 MB (yes MB) XP system don't really cut it any more.

Cheers
jimbo

Yeah, makes me wonder what the current state of ReFS is.