Fixing Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB read performance in Far Cry 7
I've had enough. This drive was struggling with the massive asset streaming of a modern engine, leading to slow foliage loading and even some ugly texture popping. If the partitions aren't aligned, the random read performance of the Exceria Pro drops by about 20% under high concurrency, with latency lingering around 110-130ms. I fell for the trap of installing 'disk booster' software, which did nothing but eat up background RAM—it's a total scam. I finally used a partition manager to fix the 4K alignment and flashed the latest official firmware. In my tests, random reads jumped from 35MB/s to 50-60MB/s, and the frequency of those loading hitches dropped by about 65%. I actually had a heart attack when I accidentally deleted a small partition during the process and spent an hour recovering data, but it was worth it. Temps are sitting at 40-48℃, and the read curves are finally looking healthy at 50-60MB/s.
