In the last 10 years, Ext4 has risen in prominence, ReiserFS has fallen to the wayside, ZFS has been ported to Linux, XFS keeps plugging along, and there's a new kid: Btrfs. NTFS has evolved, too. It's now 2016. How do these filesystems stack up against each other? Does it really make that much of a difference? We’ll show you the results of standard, consistent tests across platforms (Linux vs. Windows) and filesystems to see if the differences are worth choosing one over the other. For simplicity's sake, the tests are performed on identical hardware with out-of-the-box settings.