PARIS, Jun. 9 (Benin News/EP) –
Microsoft plans to require solid-state hard drives (SSDs) from computer makers to install Windows 11, a requirement it might implement as soon as 2023.
This is revealed by a report carried out by the consulting company Trendfocus, the results of which have been consulted by Tom’s Hardware, which reports that… original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) would have been instructed to remove the main storage device on computers running this operating system.
Today, most of these computers are equipped with hard disk drives (HDDs), storage devices that use a magnetic recording system to store digital files that provide slower than SSDs.
Most modern SSDs offer higher transfer rates than a hard drive, so their impact on operating system performance is very positive. That’s why more and more manufacturers are opting for SSDs over HDDs.
However, these other storage drives, more advancedThe cost is higher, which is why some manufacturers are dropping them in favor of other, more affordable hard drives.
For the installation of Windows 11, Microsoft currently only requires that the device on which the operating system is to be downloaded has 4 GB of RAM and at least 64 GB of available storage space.
However, the SSD is a prerequisite for accessing two operating system options. FirstlyDirectStorage, a feature made available to Windows developers to implement in games to reduce loading times.
On another side, Windows Subsystem for Android, a code by which support is provided for various Android application programming interfaces (APIs) on Windows 11.
According to Trendfocus’s analysis, Windows has allegedly pressured OEMs to implement SSDs to provide Windows users with a more responsive and streamlined device experience.
She would do it in order to kill hard drives and replace them with SSDs in the short term, by 2023. as the target date. However, OEMs would attempt to negotiate a longer time frame for the implementation of this change.