Win11 Pro and SSDs don't play well together? I found this online, have any Hoggers had similar problems?

Laramie Loc: Tempe

I found this online, have any Hoggers had similar problems?

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/20/206205/windows-11-pros-on-by-default-encryption-slows-ssds-up-to-45

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

As far as I know, I'm not running BitLocker, so I'd have to say no.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I’m running Win11 Pro, and encryption wasn’t on by default at installation (on a new machine I assembled), and my Samsung 980 Pro and 970s benchmark almost exactly at the rated speed if not a bit better (and HW encryption is enabled by default on Samsung SSDs). One caveat: if you’re benchmarking a disk, SSD or HD, run the entire suite of file/request sizes, disks will always be slower with small files (more accesses) and max performance is attained at the largest file sizes.

Btw, bitlocker isn’t available on Win11 Home edition - only Pro.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Laramie wrote:

I found this online, have any Hoggers had similar problems?

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/20/206205/windows-11-pros-on-by-default-encryption-slows-ssds-up-to-45

I'll wait until support of Win 10 ends. Maybe by that time the bugs will be out of Win 11...

bwa

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bwana wrote:

I'll wait until support of Win 10 ends. Maybe by that time the bugs will be out of Win 11...

bwa

We have Win 11 on three machines. We've not noticed any problems yet.
The desktop is Pro, the laptops are Home.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Longshadow wrote:

We have Win 11 on three machines. We've not noticed any problems yet.
The desktop is Pro, the laptops are Home.

Two of my astro-imaging software packages wouldn't open under Win 11. My HP print driver didn't like Win 11. And my biggest complaint is the inability to keep the menu on the right side of the screen.

bwa

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bwana wrote:

Two of my astro-imaging software packages wouldn't open under Win 11. My HP print driver didn't like Win 11. And my biggest complaint is the inability to keep the menu on the right side of the screen.

bwa

Interesting.
Obviously it depends on how the old(er) software was written.
I'm using Spider Pad from the mid 90s, Quicken from 2007, and WS-FTP from 1995, Photo Impact Pro from 2003 to name a few. Even my Canon LiDE-210 flatbed scanner works fine.
Lucky I suppose.
(I like the "menu" (task bar) on the bottom.)

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

bwana wrote:

Two of my astro-imaging software packages wouldn't open under Win 11. My HP print driver didn't like Win 11. And my biggest complaint is the inability to keep the menu on the right side of the screen.

bwa

And that’s only gonna get worse as Windows moves to Win 12 soon. It’s not that Win 11 is buggy, it’s that as the OS moves on, there’s less and less incentive to create and support drivers for outdated OSs

Harry02 Loc: Gardena, CA

Longshadow wrote:

As far as I know, I'm not running BitLocker, so I'd have to say no.

Ditto. No Bitlocker. No Win11 problems on any SSDs.
Then again, I have never used Bitlocker, so I be ignorant of it's issues.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Harry02 wrote:

Ditto. No Bitlocker. No Win11 problems on any SSDs.
Then again, I have never used Bitlocker, so I be ignorant of it's issues.

Me too neither.
Never used it.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

TriX wrote:

And that’s only gonna get worse as Windows moves to Win 12 soon. It’s not that Win 11 is buggy, it’s that as the OS moves on, there’s less and less incentive to create and support drivers for outdated OSs

Then there is also less incentive to move to the new OS!

bwa

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

bwana wrote:

Then there is also less incentive to move to the new OS!

bwa

As long as your existing OS supports your needs, doesn’t need new drivers for peripherals and you don’t connect it to the internet, you can run it forever for special applications. I still have an XP SP3 machine for audio testing that is not on the network which would be a security liability. If I need to transfer files from/to it, I use a USB stick and “sneakernet”.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

bwana wrote:

Two of my astro-imaging software packages wouldn't open under Win 11. My HP print driver didn't like Win 11. And my biggest complaint is the inability to keep the menu on the right side of the screen.

bwa

I have an older HP B&W laserjet printer. When Win11 was installed I had to get HP's Universal Printer driver. Works fine now.

Harry02 Loc: Gardena, CA

Laramie wrote:

I have an older HP B&W laserjet printer. When Win11 was installed I had to get HP's Universal Printer driver. Works fine now.

Me too, also. Lerved those things. Fast and pretty printing, EZ to repair.
BUT parallel ports are getting hard to come by.