Empirical benchmarks comparing Windows Dev Drive (ReFS) vs NTFS for local LLMs across cold TTFT, inference jitter, Colibri MoE streaming, and n-gram paging.
How I got Qwen 3.8 Flash Next running at 10 tokens/sec on an RTX 5060 Ti, and why paging n-gram tables from NVMe avoids the brutal disk bandwidth bottlenecks of MoE expert streaming.
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Colibrì vs. FreeToken: Can Consumer Hardware Really Run Frontier MoE Models?
Does Windows Dev Drive Actually Speed Up Local LLMs? A Deep Dive into ReFS, Defender, and NVMe Paging
Getting 10 tok/s on Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: Why N-Gram Disk Paging Works Where MoE Fails
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