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In independent tests (using CrystalDiskMark), Paragon’s driver consistently achieves 95-98% of the raw hardware speed on large sequential reads/writes. On random 4K reads (critical for small files like source code or logs), it often outperforms Microsoft’s own Ext4 driver in WSL2 because it bypasses the virtualized layer.

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