I keep getting these random freezes during scene transitions in Scarlet Nexus with my GW3300 2TB, why is this happening?

Whenever I trigger psychic combat, the screen just hangs for a fraction of a second, which is honestly pretty common for budget drives like the Great Wall GW3300 2TB. I dug into the performance monitor and saw the disk queue depth spiking over 64, while average response times were swinging wildly between 25ms - 40ms, meaning the assets just couldn't load fast enough for the renderer. At first, I tried disabling every single background update in Windows, but that only shaved off maybe a second of loading time—a total waste of effort that made me question this controller's scheduling. I eventually went into Device Manager, flipped the write caching policy from 'Quick Removal' to 'Enable write caching,' and pushed the I/O priority to the max in the registry. After that, the disk wait time dropped from 30ms down to a steady 8ms - 12ms, and scene transitions became way smoother. To be fair, the first time I enabled caching, I actually lost a tiny bit of data during an unplanned power outage, so I didn't dare keep it on until I installed a reliable UPS. Temps stayed around 42℃ - 50℃. I exported the disk policy via a system snapshot, and now the I/O response is rock steady at 8ms - 12ms.