Your Windows SSD could be faster, Microsoft’s new update reveals why

Windows 11 users can unlock higher NVMe SSD performance using a hidden Microsoft driver, if they’re willing to tweak. The ...
ExtremeTech

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

Twitter/X user, Mouse&Keyboard managed to get the driver working on their Windows PC and found that their SK Hynix Platinum ...
Ars Technica

Using an SSD with XP

Stupid question, but I need to fix an older piece of equipment with a dead hard drive that must be controlled via a Windows XP machine (so no TRIM). I'd like to replace its dead magnetic hard drive ...

This Windows registry hack can boost NVMe SSD performance by up to 80%, but there's a catch

One developer who successfully activated the feature in Windows 11 (version 25H2) is X user PurePlayerPC, who claims it works "pretty good" on his computer. He ...

This Hidden Windows 11 NVMe Driver May Give SSD Performance A Huge Speed Boost

It sounds too good to be true, but this hidden NVMe driver for Windows that boosts performance is real — and you can try it, ...
Liliputing

Acer Aspire One with SSD and Windows XP coming soon

Right now if you want to pick up an Acer Aspire One netbook with Windows XP, you need to find a model with a hard drive. While Acer does sell several models with solid state disks, they run Linpus ...
Ars Technica

SSD on an old MCP51 chipset motherboard runnning XP?

My wife's PC is a perfectly functional little machine, which she uses purely for Office and web browsing. It has an MSI K9NGM motherboard, which has an MCP51 chipset (Nforce 430, I think?). At the ...