Boost Your Windows SSD Performance by up to 85% With This Server Driver Trick

It's rare we get anything for free these days, especially in the realm of storage and memory. But an updated Windows Server driver has officially given Windows native NVMe SSD support, and some enterprising users have got it working on standard Windows 11 Home and Pro installs for an impressive uplift in SSD performance, as TomsHardware reports.

The latest SSDs offer up to 15 Gbps of sustained read and write performance - 30 times faster than SATA SSDs of just a few generations ago. But faster is always better in the realm of PC technology, so how about some additional sustained performance and enormous improvements to random write performance?

Twitter/X user, Mouse&Keyboard managed to get the driver working on their Windows PC and found that their SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD saw an AS SSD benchmark score increase of 13%. In 4K-64Thrd workloads, the results were 22% faster ...