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Windows 11 just gave NVMe owners a free speed boost, but you'll have to enable it first
NVMe drives have been supported for a long time on Windows, but the definition of "native" has changed over time. Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 added it first, in the form of StorNVMe.
Microsoft has bundled a revised NVMe storage driver with the Windows 11 25H2 update, offering improved performance for modern solid-state drives. Unlike most system components, this driver is not ...
Last month HEXUS reported on Microsoft's statement that DirectStorage "will only be available with Windows 11". However, things aren't so simple, or so bad for Windows 10 users, as a recent Microsoft ...
Windows 11 appears to gain a meaningful storage-side improvement from native NVMe support for PCIe SSDs, a feature Microsoft originally framed more prominently around Windows Server 2025. The change ...
Why it matters: DirectStorage is one of several attractive features destined for Windows 11. Up until this point, we'd been led to believe that the tech, which was originally created for the Xbox ...
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