[RamseyMcGrath]

You'd be wrong (at least for grep) http://www.jwgoerlich.us/blogengine/post/2013/01/21/Grep-ver...

[kuschku]

Except, GNU grep is even faster than Select-String, if you run it on a better filesystem.

[togusa]

NTFS is only a turd on lots of small writes. It really flies on reads.

[kuschku]

Unless it is fragmented heavily, which often tends to happen.

[togusa]

Pretty much a non issue since 2012. It defrags itself.