Windows 11: More SSD performance through native NVMe support
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Windows 11 also benefits from native NVMe support for PCIe SSDs, which Microsoft had previously announced for its professional enterprise operating system Windows Server 2025. However, caution is definitely advised.
Microsoft has announced through its tech community the native support of the NVMe ("Non-Volatile Memory Express") memory path for its latest enterprise operating system Windows Server 2025 and spectacularly sells the transition as a "revolution" and the beginning of "a new era" in memory performance. The native NVMe support, which according to Heise allows a higher data throughput and lower access times, can also be activated with Windows 11. The website speaks of an "SSD afterburner" and attests to a 10 to 15 percent higher throughput in synthetic benchmarks.
Is NVMe better than SSD for Windows performance?
The surveys relate to an NVMe SSD that was connected via PCIe 4.0 in a "normal" work computer. Microsoft itself sees the greatest potential under PCIe 5.0 in the "new" software stack, which is already an old hat under VMware and Linux and could already be used under Windows with corresponding NVMe drivers (e.g. Samsung's). But first, the Deskmodder website had reported on the necessary registry keys that must be activated in order to use "Native NVMe" on Windows 11. In isolated cases, however, it may well happen that SSDs are no longer properly recognized by the corresponding tools.
Where did the SSDs go?
After the native NVMe support has been activated with the corresponding registry keys and the system has been restarted, the PCIe SSDs are no longer listed under [Drives] but under [Storage Media] in the Device Manager of Windows 11
The new native NVMe storage stack is designed specifically for modern hardware and brings "enormous IOPS gains" through direct multi-queue access to the NVMe storage drives. The latencies should also be significantly reduced, while the efficient use frees up previously bound computing power. In Heise's benchmarks, this could also be confirmed for the time being.
The access times in synthetic benchmarks fell, the throughput increased by around 10 to 15 percent with a PCIe 4.0 SSD - but not measured cleanly in a clinical test environment, but on a "normal" work computer. - Heise
Performance gains could also be identified on NVMe SSDs, which are "only" connected via PCIe 3.0, as the website reports.
Further first quick shots also showed performance gains on systems with PCIe 3.0 SSDs. The systems come into a "quiet state" noticeably faster after a reboot. - Heise
In the comments on the site Deskmodder.de the experiences range from "high growth rates" and "faster starting background applications" to "not noticing anything about it".
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