Comment on Windows 11 25H2 Includes a Faster NVMe Driver Needing Manual Installation
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours agoThat’s fair. I’m certainly not one to defend msoft, nor do I really have the technical knowledge to rebut. Is it possible that ‘trying’ the driver as you suggested could damage the drive or corrupt data? Just wondering if there’s a legitimate reason they wouldn’t go for a seemingly easy win aside from being a generally dumb organization.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 6 hours ago
There’s always the option of gathering device info first, then using the appropriate driver. Either the SSD is in a “known supported models” list, or it reports support for whatever feature the new driver needs.
It’s technically possible that straight up trying an unsupported driver can cause physical damage, but this can be avoided by carefully selecting the driver. From MS pov, they’d have to extensively test this driver on a bunch of SSDs and configurations, but it would lead to a performance improvement.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Ah, any developer who suggested that probably got the same answer I get at work: “Testing costs money, so unless we absolutely have to, no.”