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Microsoft Defender, the company’s antivirus program for Windows, is getting a new mode designed to make life easier for software developers.
It’s called “Performance Mode”, works on Windows 11, and aims to reduce the impact of scans on files found on dev drives.
For starters, the Dev Drive is a new type of storage volume that uses the Resilient File System (ReFS) to make data more resistant to corruption. They were first introduced during this year’s Microsoft Build conference, BleepingComputer recalls, and are currently available in public preview. Dev drives are mostly used to hold large data sets, but Defender was apparently slowing down build speeds. According to Panos Panay, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Windows and Devices, build speed can now be increased by up to 30% with Performance Mode.
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“Dev Drive is based on the Resilient File System, combined with a new Performance Mode capability in Microsoft Defender for Antivirus, offering up to 30% file system improvement in build time for file I/O scenarios,” Paana he said.
“The new performance mode is more secure for your workloads than folder or process exclusions, providing an ultimate solution for balancing security with performance.”
Performance mode works by delaying the scanning process until file operations are complete.
Those interested in setting up a new dev drive should go to System > Storage > Advanced store settings > Disks and volumes and click the “Create Dev Drive” button.
Defender will have performance mode by default for “trusted” drives, which includes all newly created dev drives, it further said. Also, to take full advantage of Performance Mode, real-time protection must also be turned on. FAT32 and NTFS are not supported.
“A dev drive is automatically designated as trusted, which by default provides the best possible performance. A trusted dev drive means that the developer using the volume has to take the utmost care in protecting the content stored there.” Trust,” Microsoft said.
Via: Bleeping Computer
