Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decisions from the 1980s.
One (contrived) example would be to have a drive that doesn’t have any installed file system filters on it. Filters being the hooks that windows, antivirus, etc have that intercept file writes and such. Could make it much faster on windows for that use-case. I can see custom software using that drive.
Contrived? Definitely. But potentially useful. I can see it working similarly to something MS has in testing which is the file system thing that is super fast but is limited in features—can’t seem to find it atm…
Interesting read but I can’t think of much of a reason to ever use nonstandard drive letters except to maybe hide malware or something.
Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decisions from the 1980s.
Yeah but as file explorer and even powershell can’t use the mount that 27th drive mounted to +:/ isn’t going to be very usable
One (contrived) example would be to have a drive that doesn’t have any installed file system filters on it. Filters being the hooks that windows, antivirus, etc have that intercept file writes and such. Could make it much faster on windows for that use-case. I can see custom software using that drive.
Contrived? Definitely. But potentially useful. I can see it working similarly to something MS has in testing which is the file system thing that is super fast but is limited in features—can’t seem to find it atm…
Edit: Found it. Dev drive via ReFS.