People tend to forget that this is a BETA OS... the symptom usually (and this comes from ALL earliery Windows OS) is a driver issue/power management that the OS requests to the HW device and its capabilities/driver.
Definitely this is an issue of data transfer/write: USB drive, ports communication, destination drive issue or ISO integrity itself.
No, it is not a definite (solution). I am trying to install onto a perfectly good NVME drive in an 11th gen Intel desktop and I have re-created the ISO from different sources and wrote it onto different USB sticks and have the same issue every time. My asus z590 motherboard has 3 NVME slots and I tried using each one. I always get a BSOD immediately after the "Setting up Devices" stage of the installation.
I had a similar problem, it was the Intel AHCI driver, some more recent drivers would cause issues, used a older worked and the update windows to the last one, no issues again.
I didnt pointed ANY solution, pointed possible causes. Still its due to an HW device on that stage, bios settings affecting specific HW, external devices attached, etc..
Try ahci only , turn on vt d as defender uses virtual based protection in certain areas, unplug all uneeded hardware external and internal, once you get it to boot you add them
To follow up further, it is definitely hardware related. Using the same nvme drive and usb installation media, they both work just fine on a 10th gen intel laptop.
running a i9-7900x only two sicks of 8gb ram should i run out and buy a quad 32gb kit since 11 wants your ram ?
more ram is always good but i dont think it will make a difference in regards to win11, it just use more ram, i have 26% usage also
16gb should be just fine. But the more you have, the more the system can use for caching. (which is good, since having it unused is a waste - as soon as it is needed by programs, the memory is released to them)