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Old 09-25-2015, 12:39 AM   #26449
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
NTFS5 supports *nix style hard links and symbolic links, but does not expose the functionality by default. You need an advanced utility package from MS or a third-party offering to use the functionality. I use a freeware utility called Link Shell Extension from William Schinagl. LSE adds Pick Link Source and Drop Link As selections to the right-click context menu in Explorer.
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Hard links are and have been supported since the very first iteration of NTFS. And can be created with the built-in command "mklink". In Windows 10 support for hard and symbolic links for files and directories, along with junctions for directories, is built in to PowerShell. (New-Item -Type {HardLink | SymbolicLink | Junction} ).


The incremental value of a RAMDisk over an SSD is trivial and could actually be a detriment if not sized perfectly, since Windows is actually quite smart about using available RAM for caching.
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