Microsoft has just announced that Windows Server 2025 will natively support NVMe drives, some 14 years after the technology launched. Given that Windows 11 shares the same architecture as Windows 10, it stands to reason that enterprising users can also enable native NVMe support using the same procedure. Computer Base [machine translated] reports that some users who enabled the feature experienced lower latencies and higher transfer speeds, resulting in an improvement of about 10% to 15%.
This feature will allow users to maximize read and write speeds on their NVMe drives while reducing processor load. It will also limit instances in which one or more applications performing many storage-intensive tasks would cause the entire system to freeze. Despite this, a few users said they didn’t see any change in performance after tweaking their registry.
We expect this technology to be slowly standardized over the years, especially as developers take advantage of native NVMe support. But if you’re one to push your hardware to its limits, you can force the change now by following the instructions from Microsoft. Nevertheless, it’s recommended that you back up your system or test the changes in a virtual environment before making them, as doing so could lead to system instability.
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