Windows 11 has picked up a couple of storage-related improvements that may not sound dramatic at first, but they actually fix two long-standing frustrations that many users have quietly put up with for years. One is the sluggish performance in the Storage settings page when checking drive details, especially on larger drives. The other is Microsoft finally loosening an old FAT32 formatting restriction that never really made much sense in modern computing.

If you're using a Surface Pro, especially models like the Surface Pro 7, 8 or 9, you might have run into a really annoying issue after upgrading your SSD to something faster like a Gen4 NVMe. Everything works smoothly at first, performance feels great, and then out of nowhere the system freezes for a few seconds after waking from sleep. The desktop stops responding, apps hang for a moment, and then the whole device suddenly comes back to life like nothing ever happened. It's frustrating and makes a premium device feel unreliable.