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Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance

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Yash_Shekar
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Dec 15, 2025

Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025 is a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads. Enable Native NVMe today using a registry key after applying October’s latest cumulative update for WS2025!

We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025—a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads. Modern ...
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Squall_Leonhart
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Dec 21, 2025

msahci and stornvme implement sata and nvme command sets as SCSI rather than native.

Reading more than the title would have answered the question, and theres even pictures available to keep your attention span.

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Kevin256
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Dec 21, 2025

I read all the article, not just the title. 

 

I could be missing something, so, respectfully, help me here: If NVMe commands are translated to SCSI/SATA ones, why Windows always had huge gains when using it on NVMe drives? That translation should bottleneck performance and other capabilities.

 

If Microsoft took this long to embrace a "new" storage technology properly and all that we had until now was inefficient code running (simulating the new tech), with many other problems occurring on Windows 11 every month, no wonder Linux is eating the desktop space bit by bit... In this case, this news is a decade late, and it's not news at all.