Windows 11 guest sees my disks as HDDs instead of SSDs

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In the VM, it sees the both storage devices as HDD instead of SSD.

Here’s the config of my disks:

OS drive:

<disk type="file" device="disk">
  <driver name="qemu" type="qcow2" discard="unmap"/>
  <source file="/home/DATA/870E2TB/yamiyuki/VMs/Windows.qcow2"/>
  <target dev="sda" bus="sata"/>
  <boot order="2"/>
  <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="0"/>
</disk>

DATA/Game drive:

<disk type="block" device="disk">
  <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none" io="native"/>
  <source dev="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_860_QVO_1TB_S4PGNF0M434676E"/>
  <target dev="sdc" bus="sata"/>
  <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="2"/>
</disk>

I read that I’m supposed to use model='virtio-scsi, but my drives are connected by SATA. And kinda worried about defrag. I know I can disable that, but I’m planning on passing through an HDD at some point.

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Totally fine. If you create virtual disks, they are treated as HDDs. All good.

Irrelevant. Has nothing to do how the host is connected to the drives. It’s just a virtual driver to address block storage for VMs. You don’t need to dig out your old 2940-U2W SCSI.

So what’s the problem exactly?

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