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 design, allowing higher throughput and a greater number of devices to be
 connected. You can connect up to 6 devices on this controller.
 
 design, allowing higher throughput and a greater number of devices to be
 connected. You can connect up to 6 devices on this controller.
 

-* the *SCSI* controller, designed in 1985, is commonly found on server
-grade hardware, and can connect up to 14 storage devices. {pve} emulates by
-default a LSI 53C895A controller.
-
-* The *Virtio* controller is a generic paravirtualized controller, and is the
-recommended setting if you aim for performance. To use this controller, the OS
-need to have special drivers which may be included in your installation ISO or
-not. Linux distributions have support for the Virtio controller since 2010, and
+* the *SCSI* controller, designed in 1985, is commonly found on server grade
+hardware, and can connect up to 14 storage devices. {pve} emulates by default a
+LSI 53C895A controller. +
+A SCSI controller of type _Virtio_ is the recommended setting if you aim for
+performance and is automatically selected for newly created Linux VMs since
+{pve} 4.3. Linux distributions have support for this controller since 2012, and

 FreeBSD since 2014. For Windows OSes, you need to provide an extra iso
 FreeBSD since 2014. For Windows OSes, you need to provide an extra iso

-containing the Virtio drivers during the installation.
-// see: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Block_Drivers_for_Windows#During_windows_installation.
-You can connect up to 16 devices on this controller.
+containing the drivers during the installation.
+// https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Paravirtualized_Block_Drivers_for_Windows#During_windows_installation.
+
+* The *Virtio* controller, also called virtio-blk to distinguish from
+the Virtio SCSI controller, is an older type of paravirtualized controller
+which has been superseded in features by the Virtio SCSI Controller.

 
 On each controller you attach a number of emulated hard disks, which are backed
 by a file or a block device residing in the configured storage. The choice of
 
 On each controller you attach a number of emulated hard disks, which are backed
 by a file or a block device residing in the configured storage. The choice of