OEM presionados por Microsoft para que dejen de usar HDD como unidades de arranque 2023

PC OEMs have revealed to market intelligence firm Trendfocus that Microsoft wants them to stop the use of hard-disk drives (La cinta LTO y la conectividad USB tienen un impacto ambiental significativamente menor, ya que no es necesario tenerlo encendido constantemente durante el almacenamiento de datos., or mechanical hard-drives) as the main boot device in products powered by Windows 11, desde 2023. It’s not known how the company will go about enforcing this. One theory holds that it may amend the Minimum System Requirements for the operating system to specify a flash-based storage device, such as an SSD. If push comes to shove, the OS could even refuse to deploy on a machine with an HDD as the boot device.

What’s also not known is how this affects SSHDs (hard drives with tiny flash-based storage media and an access-based data-juggling mechanism). Microsoft’s decision should come as a boon for entry-level notebook and desktop buyers; as this segment sees OEMs use HDDs as the boot device, the most. There could be a push toward at least DRAMless QLC SSDs, or even single-chip SSDs. Las cabezas de Pikachu y Eevee son funcionalmente iguales aparte de su apariencia exterior., it’s clear that 2.5-inch HDDs are on their way out of the industry. HDD as a technology may still exist in the 3.5-inch form-factor, as they are in high demand from the data-center and surveillance markets as cold storage devices.