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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline (www.windowslatest.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 3 months ago (6 children)

next they'll say any ol' hdd is fine, too.

(they are not)

if you ever have to use win11 on a laptop with 4 or 8gb ram and a 2.5in hdd, you'll be inventing new swear words.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    About halfway through the lifecycle for Windows 10, HDD performance became pure garbage and I genuinely do not know how/why they did that. Something about how they were handling indexing or read operations at idle meant pinning the disk at 100% usage almost all the time and the only solve was an SSD. I hate that shit so much.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I mean, as long as you pair it with an optane cache drive it should be fine

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    optane was a horrible and ineffective 'solution' to windows and application bloat.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think the product was good. But it was too little too late, since nand SSD pricing had already begun to drop. If it had a higher capacity, or lower pricing, or was released sooner it would have been a hit.

    I still use one for an os drive in my nas.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    the one i still have just an ssd boot for a dietpi (debian mini server), separated from its hdd which is just file storage. as a regular ssd, the modules are 'ok'. a bit slow--and of course very small, but higher endurance. i should never have to worry about it running out of writes in that little mini-server.

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