How many mechanical hard drives do you still have? Although in terms of absolute quantity, mechanical hard disks still maintain a shipping scale of hundreds of millions of pieces every year, for many consumers, SSD has already become the storage option of their installation priority, and a large number of notebook products have also eliminated mechanical hard disks. It seems that Microsoft wants to speed up the process of switching from mechanical hard disk to SSD.
According to trendfocus, the OEM manufacturer disclosed that Microsoft has notified that [windows] will be pre installed from 2023( https://microsoft.pvxt.net/x9Vg1 ) The system boot disk of 11 must be SSD**
Although the current minimum storage requirement for windows 11 is still 64GB, and the mechanical hard disk is OK, in fact, the two major features of windows 11, directstorage and windows subsystem for Android, must be enabled in an SSD environment.
Take directstorage as an example. It is a storage subsystem acceleration technology that allows GPU computing shaders to directly access nvme SSDs and directly handle the decompression of game resources without bypassing the CPU, thus greatly improving the game loading speed, reducing latency, and saving CPU resources.
Obviously, Microsoft's move can release more features of windows 11 and optimize the user experience, including improving the overall speed, reducing noise, reducing weight, etc.
However, the unit capacity cost of SSD is still much higher than that of mechanical hard disk. Moreover, mechanical hard disk still has the advantage of stability and reliability.
