Adapt or die has always been the premise that has driven an IT industry that has as many different levels as there are people. The problem is when you don’t give people and companies options, which usually causes a negative reaction to the product, regardless of the rationale for the decision. Well, Microsoft is back and doing it with a bang despite the fact that the market surely agrees with it, and the users?
Either you have an SSD as your boot drive or you won’t be able to install Windows 11
In a new report from trend focus The most important Windows 11 data comes after the Redmond-based company left millions of PCs around the world behind due to poor operating system support. TPM 2.0 was just the premise, limiting processors as a consequence of the prevailing “poor security” and now comes the performance excuse.
Ladies and gentlemen, Microsoft will need a system boot drive for Windows 11 and from 2023 of the SSD type, i.e. the boot disk on which the company’s operating system is installed must be a Hard disk. Neither a USB key, nor a CD, nor a traditional hard drive, an SSD in every rule, which will undoubtedly sow the seed of discord.
Taking into account that SSDs outsell HDDs, this measure would partially prove Microsoft right, but… It’s not always or it will be like that. Some laptops continue to be sold with hard drives as they focus on specific tasks that require more capacity, or simply entry-level laptops that want to pack more space into a single unit at a low price.
Its operating system, its rules, a bullet in the foot?
Microsoft will leave this type of equipment aside and manufacturers will have to take the leap at all costs to be able to say that their products support Windows 11. Why is Microsoft making such a decision that it is not essential for its system? exploitation? According to rumors, it could be essential to opt for the SSD, even if the reasoning is not the best.
Everything seems to revolve around Direct storage and logically, the best performance will be obtained with an NVMe SSD. But Microsoft does not specify this type of protocol as mandatory, we could install a SATA SSD without any problem to install Windows 11, so what’s going on?
Well, Microsoft would have defined this minimum SSD vs. HDD despite the fact that in theory HDDs are more than capable of delivering decent performance with DirectStorage, as CPU resources will be saved and even if the GPU must access the SATA interface will cause it to do the same in the case of an SSD of this type.
The only thing that could justify here are latencies and access times to information, but is this relevant to the point of excluding millions of PCs? Will you have to install Windows 11 before this limitation takes effect and you will never be able to format again because you have a hard drive? Complicated, it once again looks more like an excuse than a collection measure with little plot accents, as happened with TPM 2.0…
