I learned something new the other day. I had to add a HDD as I was running out of space on numerous partitions, and there's also the matter of Starfield's whopping big size. The object was to offload half of a 2TB drive and expand the other partitions to use that space. One of those partitions was my game install drive (D:). I'd noticed that my heavily modded SSE was taking every bit of of 2 minutes to launch. I figured this was just one of SE's unique qualities, and the number of mods I have. Three gig of Interesting NPCs is well known to slow down loading, among other things. Still, it was on a fast Samsung NVME drive, so I was a little confused. I ran into an issue resizing it because apparently you cannot expand EXFat partitions, which D was. DL software, convert it, resize it, and now it's formatted NTFS like the other partitions. Start time from MO2 is 20 seconds now. I was aware that ExFat wasn't as efficient for some applications. It's got times where it's better and times where it's worse. I really had no idea how much worse it could be, though. We're talking about every bit of six times faster just by changing the file system away from it. Who knew?