Reading that link you provided, it brought up something I have never thought about; the spinning of the HHD.
Windows is resourceful when the HDD is not in use, it slows or stops the spinning, whereas Linux doesn’t.
I never noticed it before when I was running Linux (with HDDs) probably because it was on a desktop PC, and constantly plugged in.
I don’t have that issue since I have 2 SSDs on my laptop.
Same here I’ve only used SSD drives for over 10 years now.