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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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Dec 23, 2025

With these additional features enabled, I mange to get it running on Windows 11 (disk showing up under Storage Disks as NVMe) - but I can't measure any improvement, in fact I only get worse numbers after the change.
The article only talks about WS2025, do any of you know if it actually is suppose to work on clients?

Additional keys for Windows 11 - but I don't see any performance gains, so I might not work on clients at all - do you see a difference?

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides /v 1853569164 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides /v 156965516 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Policies\Microsoft\FeatureManagement\Overrides /v 735209102 /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

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Dec 23, 2025

On one Win11 25H2 system, I saw 12% higher max read speeds, 2% higher max write speeds, 167% higher IOPS between 512b and 8KB IOs.  138% more performance between 512kb-8MB reads & writes.  It's a 4-year old OEM Samsung NVMe.  While these results won't be representative of all hardware out there, the new nvme driver improved responsiveness and reduced time to login to desktop.  Overall the results were improved across the board, with more consistent performance across a broad range of file sizes.  This driver hits the performance limitations of the NVMe controller.  

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    RHC
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    Dec 24, 2025

    Did you enable it by adding the 4 reg keys? Or did you do something else?