https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-cpu-performance-takes-a-big-hit-due-to-windows-defender-bug

Good info. I'm still trying to figure out what's causing my system to run the C: at 100% utilization. It really doesn't affect anything Im doing , well not that much as most of what i do is run from my SSD which is my secondary (D:) drive. It causes some lag loading browser stuff but otherwise its ok. If it wouldn't be such a PItA to reload everything I would go with a SSD for my main drive. Come to think of it I do have the stuff to clone the drive so i think I will. clone the Current SSD, which is pretty new and hasn't seen much use to a 1 TB SSD, then take the 500gb SSD and clone the OS drive and swap it out. double the space for games and such and a faster more efficient OS drive.

Humm, my only reservation about using a SSD for my OS drive is the swap file. with the constant read writes to the swap file I wonder what the life of a SSD would be. Gonna give that a look right now and see what the prevailing opinion is. Currently I'm running a 10K RPM server drive as the C: drive and yes, it does sounds like a jet powering on at startup but the 100% OS drive utilization does have me concerned.

The stuff nerds worry about lol.