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blowdart.me
"Your devdrive is not using bitlocker"

Correct. I'm not that stupid.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
aetos.aerie.jp
ReFS が DevDrive にリネームされたわけではなく、ReFS 技術の上に開発者向けの最適化をプリインストールしたバージョンのようなものだと思います。ReFS はサーバーのデータストレージ向けファイルシステムとして現役です。
October 9, 2023 at 4:51 AM
scott.hanselman.com
Performance Testing a DevDrive on Windows 11 LIVE and RAW with ZERO EDITS on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8yKWX8YAA
Performance Testing a DevDrive on Windows 11 LIVE and RAW with ZERO EDITS
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December 2, 2024 at 4:54 AM
alvinashcraft.com
Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11 on Microsoft Learn.

https://buff.ly/3V61BXn
#windowsdev #windows #windows11 #devdrive #productivity #performance #developers
Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11
Learn about the new Dev Drive storage available to improve file system performance for development scenarios using the ReFS volume format, including how to set it up, designate trust to use…
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November 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM
mohemohe.mstdn.plusminus.io.ap.brid.gy
DevDriveはReFSだからなぁ
June 11, 2024 at 11:09 AM
gcaughey.bsky.social
All the time. Works great and especially if you set up a DevDrive.
July 25, 2024 at 10:39 AM
coolhandle01.bsky.social
Tested more of the pipeline, and moved package caches to the DevDrive.

30m off a 2.5hr build.

Absolutely wild stuff.
coolhandle01.bsky.social Nathan @coolhandle01.bsky.social · Feb 15
So I created a windows 11 build VM and then two scalesets. During the scaleset provisioning a disk is attached, this is the build disk.

One one scaleset I formatted the build disk as a DevDrive instead of NTFS. This took 15m off my 2hr product build.

For fuck all.

Nice one, DevDrive 👍
March 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
alvinashcraft.com
Windows Dev Chat - August 15, 2024.

#devcommunity #windows #windowsdev #wsl #devdrive #devhome #powertoys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43rwZpcKtCA
November 18, 2024 at 6:57 PM
pvanderwoude.bsky.social
New blog post: Managing security policies for Dev Drive
www.petervanderwoude.nl/post/managin...
#MSIntune #Intune #EMS #MDM #Windows11 #DevDrive #ReFS
December 4, 2023 at 7:28 PM
scott.hanselman.com
Tip/Bug: Do NOT move your %TEMP% Env Var to a Windows 11 DevDrive. It'll work for a while and then fail on a build to build upgrade (like the insiders build I just took). Fix? Move it back, until this isn't a problem anymore.
December 2, 2024 at 4:56 AM
david.gardiner.net.au
Created a virtual drive, mounted it as E:, and ran robocopy to duplicate everything from D: (DevDrive) to E:
Now running Active Backup. It won't backup E:, but it should backup the VHDX file.
January 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
scott.hanselman.com
I'm changing my #OhMyPosh command prompt to have a special emoji when I'm on a Windows 11 DevDrive. Which should I use?
December 2, 2024 at 4:54 AM
ericlawrence.com
Is it really the case that nobody has benchmarked Chromium build on a Windows DevDrive vs. a regular NTFS partition?
December 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM
sbseltzer.net
That slight perf improvement on C/C++ compile times is absolutely worth it for me. No question. Not sure how much better it is for other languages, but compiled languages generally seem to have better build perf on DevDrive partitions.
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
laurentkempe.com
Currently moving my old #DevDrive to my new #DevDrive on 990 PRO🤩 If you are a #dev on #windows I recommend you having a look into this #ReFS file system it can speed up your build especially with package cache like npm, nuget, vcpkg, pip, cargo, maven, gradle!

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
January 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
derkoe.dev
@scott.hanselman.com do you have any guidance for configuring MS Defender for Endpoint on Windows dev machines? We have CPU usage of 10-30% when doing nothing and "Antimalware Service Executable" takes 75% cpu while compiling. We tried excluding folders and DevDrive - nothing seems to work.
screenshot showing Windows task manager with significant CPU usage of Windows Defender and Antimalware Service screenshot showing Windows task manager with 76% cpu usage of Antimalware Service and 10% CPU usage of Java
April 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
koskila.net
New article alert!

How to remove DevDrive.vhdx?

Check it out here:

www.koskila.net/how-to-remov...

#DevDrive #Tech #DevHome #Developmentenvironment #Windows
How to remove DevDrive.vhdx?
This article explains how to remove a virtual Dev Drive (DevDrive.vhdx), after it’s stuck on your machine. Dev Drives are separate drives in Windows, that are optimized for Developer workloads. Mostly...
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May 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
it-connect.bsky.social
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Un lecteur optimisé pour vos projets de dev, basé sur ReFS 💻✨

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👉 youtu.be/AiBZuiwoW_A

#Windows11 #DevDrive #Dév #ReFS #Microsoft #TutoWindows #DevTools
April 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
yohann.ciurlik.fr
Le Dev Drive sous Windows 11 est un nouveau format de volume de stockage qui permettrait d'améliorer les performances pour les devs. Il se baserait sur ReFS (Resilient File System) pour maximiser les performances et la résilience -#dev #ReFS #DevDrive

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…
Set up a Dev Drive on Windows 11
Learn about the new Dev Drive storage available to improve file system performance for development scenarios using the ReFS volume format, including how to set it up, designate trust to use performance mode for Microsoft Defender Antivirus, customized filters, and FAQs.
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February 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
sylence.bsky.social
wenn man in Win11 ein DevDrive vergrößern will, dann hat man da einen Link "hey du musst zuerst die virtuelle Disk vergrößern". Und auf der Seite ist dann ein Powershell-Befehl den man ausführen muss. Danach kann man das Drive dann vergrößern.

Warum führt Win den Befehl nicht einfach selber aus?
November 25, 2024 at 7:16 AM
alvinashcraft.com
Windows Dev Chat - August 15, 2024.

#devcommunity #windows #windowsdev #wsl #devdrive #devhome #powertoys
Windows Dev Chat - August 15, 2024
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August 2, 2024 at 3:00 PM
sbseltzer.net
I briefly looked into those but was too scared to try it. I'm worried that'll just make future migrations more painful. 😅

I'm already using a Win11 DevDrive partition on one of my drives to improve my compile times and that's adding enough complexity for me already lol
February 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
akrisn.bsky.social
Node.jsの開発自体はWindowsでもできるのだけど、ファイルシステムが遅くて。新しく出てきたDevDriveには期待しているけど、ReFSがリムーバブルメディアでは動かないということなので試してみようにもハードルが高い。
learn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/window...
October 3, 2023 at 8:40 AM
pjwhams.bsky.social
I was going to try a comparison of compiling our applications (reasonably large but smaller than Chromium) on a devdrive, but I couldn't get devdrive to work with bitlocker
December 14, 2024 at 11:38 AM