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Jacob Ridley

This neat Windows registry trick boosts NVMe SSD performance up to 80% but it's only officially available for enterprise users

An SK Hynix Platinum P51 drive installed inside a gaming PC.

Users have discovered a registry tweak that can improve NVMe SSD performance on Windows 11, namely those all-important random 4k speeds.

Windows treats most drives as SCSI (Small Computer System Interface), which has been used for decades now and largely intended for hard drives. As such, NVMe drives that offer higher parallel performance than a hard drive are somewhat limited by the SCSI conversion: taking NVMe commands from an NVMe SSD and changing them to SCSI for the benefit of the OS, which introduces processing overhead and latency.

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