According to website Tom’s Equipmentcompany trend focus reports that computer and laptop selling (OEM) companies claim that Microsoft is pushing them to Stop using Windows 11 hard drives by 2023. Despite this, the alternative solid-state drive (SSD) option is not on the list. minimum requirements for operating system Windows 11.
From a performance standpoint, the change makes sense
This is not even a unique problem with Microsoft’s new version of the operating system: Windows’ reputation is largely due to its poor performance over long periods of time when installed on a hard drive. So, in terms of performance, It makes sense for Microsoft to push companies towards faster storage. The problem is cost. Although SSDs have become much cheaper in recent years, the price per gigabyte is still much higher than that of a hard drive:
As for the price…
HDD notebook 1 terabyte at Seagate costs 300 reais, approximately 30 cents per gigabyte. already alone SSD Sata with the same capacity, Kingston A400, costs 579 reais – approximately 58 cents per gigabyte. Nearly double the price for the same amount of storage. Sure, automakers pay less, but in this comparison, we can at least get an idea of the price difference.
In an interview with the site Tom’s Equipmentor vice president of Trendfocus,John Chen said that replacing a 1TB hard drive at the same end price as a PC would result in a cheap 256GB SSD that OEMs find insufficient for most users. Already increasing that capacity to a 512GB SSD would break the price limit for cheap laptops and desktops.
John Chen also said that “automakers are trying to move this date to 2024, but negotiations are still ongoing.”
SSDs are not included in the minimum requirements of Windows 11
At least for now, Microsoft only requires a storage device with a capacity of 64 GB or more – they still do not specify what type of device. We will likely see these minimum requirements change by the end of this year.
Two types of SSD: SATA and NVME – Source: Oficina da Net
Opinion
Although most people at this stage of the championship use the operating system on a fast SSD (solid state drive), most cheap laptops here in Brazil and other 3rd world countries are still sold with only one HD. To cut costs, desktop and laptop companies end up simply giving up all the performance of a product in exchange for more storage capacity.
A great example of this are those very old “monoblocks” from LG. Desktop computers that normally work fine but are almost unusable due to the extremely slow laptop hard drive used as a boot drive.
Of course, we can just open up the laptop and replace the slow hard drive with an SSD – and while I enjoy taking apart computers and replacing parts, I understand that this requires knowledge and effort. Opening a new laptop is a responsibility that not everyone is willing to take on – and understandably so.
From my experience, computers with Windows installed in HD are practically useless. Simple tasks like opening browser, answering emails, watching videos, writing texts is tedious and takes several minutes. And these are just the tasks that will be performed on a cheap computer or laptop.
Users often blame it on RAM or the fact that the computer is outdated – when it lacks only a simple part that costs less than two hundred reais. So I think Microsoft is on the right track.
