Does Marvel Rivals have I/O queue blocking on the Seagate FireCuda 530 1TB during map loads?

Whenever I hit the multiplayer loading screen, the progress bar would just freeze at 50% for several seconds, which is a total mood killer in a competitive game. Monitoring showed the FireCuda 530's I/O queue depth spiking over 128 instantly, leaving a massive pile of read commands waiting. I tried defragging the drive at first, but that's pointless for an NVMe and just adds unnecessary wear—a cautious mistake that actually did more harm than good. I went into Device Manager, disabled 'Write Cache Buffer Flushing,' and used the Seagate storage tool for fine-tuning. In real-world tests, load times dropped from 18 seconds to 11 seconds, and the initial stutter after loading is gone. I actually had some minor file corruption after a power outage because I disabled the cache, so I bought a UPS to sleep better at night. Temps are 42-48℃, and latency is steady at 30-40ms. The response feels snappy now.