How to stop Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB from crashing in Mass Effect?
Every time I tried to jump between galaxies, the game would just vanish to the desktop. The randomness was infuriating. It turns out the Kioxia Exceria Pro 2TB was triggering driver-level timeout errors during 4K random R/W, which paralyzed the whole system. In a fit of desperation, I moved the game to an old HDD, but the load times went from 10 seconds to 2 minutes—absolute torture. I eventually downloaded the latest official firmware and used a partition tool to re-verify the 4K alignment. After that, I did 20 fast travels in a row without a single crash. I actually had a checksum failure during the first firmware attempt, but disabling my antivirus and rebooting did the trick. The drive now stays between 45-53℃ with 100% health. I took a snapshot of the optimized partition table just in case, and the drive temps are holding steady at 45-53℃.
