How to fix SSD slowdowns on Seagate FireCuda 530 500GB in Titanfall 3?
Trying to run a game of this scale on a 500GB drive is practically a joke; as soon as the capacity hits 80%, the performance falls off a cliff. On my Seagate FireCuda 530 500GB, write amplification caused random reads to crash from 600MB/s to a pathetic 150-200MB/s, making the game hitch every time my mech accelerated. I tried using a third-party cleaner to delete temp files, but it only freed up 10GB, which did nothing for the stutters—such a waste of time. I eventually migrated the game to a dedicated 200GB dynamic partition and forced a 15% over-provisioning pool to give the controller breathing room. Monitoring software finally showed reads stabilizing at 5000-5500MB/s, and the stuttering is mostly gone. I actually messed up the partition table the first time, which stopped the game from launching, but reformatting to NTFS fixed it. Temps are between 42-50℃, and the heatsink is doing its job, though I'd strongly recommend a larger drive for this game.
