Solving Samsung 9100 PRO 8TB compatibility in Primal Carnage?
Seeing my boot time drop from 40s to 12s was an absolute rush; the efficiency gain is massive. When I first installed the drive, the system would just hang on the motherboard logo for ten seconds before the game would even start. The boot logic was clearly struggling with the Gen5 protocol, and relying on default settings was a mistake. I flashed the latest BIOS version and forced the NVMe protocol to 'Maximum Performance' mode. The boot logs showed the hardware initialization sequence was finally optimized. I did have a scare where the boot device vanished after the update, but I just had to manually re-assign the boot priority in the BIOS. Temps are sitting at 52°C - 58°C, and peak reads are hitting 12 GB/s. Dealing with firmware conflicts is always a gamble, but the smoothness is undeniable. The whole system just feels a tier faster.
