All articles tagged with #ssd performance
An updated Windows Server driver has enabled native NVMe SSD support on Windows 11, significantly boosting SSD performance—up to 85% in random write speeds—by reducing command conversion overhead, though this improvement currently requires workarounds rather than official updates.
Windows 11 Pro's default software-enabled BitLocker encryption can significantly slow down SSD performance, with tests showing a 20% slowdown in PCMark 10's storage benchmark, a 45% performance hit in Crystal Disk Mark's random write test, and an 11% slowdown in DiskBench's copy transfer test. However, hardware-based encryption performs on par with no encryption. Users are advised to check if encryption is enabled and disable it if necessary, as the impact on performance can vary depending on the drive and CPU being used.