Is my Fanxiang S910Max 2TB slowing down in FF7 Rebirth?
Exploring the open world is great until the game just freezes for a split second every time I enter a new zone. Because the Fanxiang S910Max 2TB was over 80% full, the SLC cache basically gave up, and my write speeds tanked from 10,000MB/s to around 1,500MB/s. I tried disabling all indexing services in Windows, but it only shaved 0.4 seconds off the load time—basically useless. I cleared 200GB of junk to get the free space above 30% and manually triggered a TRIM command to clean up the flash blocks. In CrystalDiskMark, the sequential writes climbed back to 8,500-9,000MB/s, and the micro-stutters vanished. I did notice a CPU spike for about ten minutes after the TRIM, but it settled down. The SSD is running at 46-54℃, and the heatsink is doing the heavy lifting. Verified the throughput via the in-game monitor, and memory temps are holding at 58-63℃.
