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by butvacuum 3 days ago
windirstat currently doesn't take 3min to index 500k+ files on an 8x8tb drive raidz2 that's 90% full. When I stopped using windoratat 3ish years ago it took a few minutes to index the same array.

I think you might he using an old version, or have an issue with your storage.

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I'm running it now... it is an old version 1.1.2.80, but it didn't tell me there's an update, and the functionality I need stayed the same, so why would I update?

It took almost 5 minutes and reports almost 2M items, 1.45M files and 465k subdirs...

I don't know that there's anything wrong with my disk, windirstat has always been slow when I ran it on my windows installation. Since it doesn't cheat, it goes slow. I will say, while it was reading, task manager showed a high read rate and a high write rate, and I dunno why, it's Windows (10); not that going through a convoluted filesystem is particularly fast anywhere else.