Why is my Seagate FireCuda 530 stuttering in the Wilds?
Whenever I hit the ecology zones, the loading bar just dies at 85% for several seconds, which completely kills my momentum. The SLC cache on the FireCuda 530 2TB is a nightmare with continuous large file reads, with response times jumping wildly between 12ms - 35ms. I tried the usual Windows 'Quick Start' and disabled power saving, but it did absolutely nothing—just a waste of time. I eventually flashed the latest firmware and went into Device Manager to switch the write caching policy from default to 'Force Flush'. In CrystalDiskMark 4K random read tests, latency dropped f
