Is TRIM needed for Intel 760P 512GB in Resident Evil 9?

Walking through those creepy hallways was fine, but every time I opened a door to a new room, I'd get this slight screen tearing. Since the Intel 760P 512GB is an older NVMe drive and was about 80% full, the random read latency was swinging between 65-88ms, meaning the assets couldn't load fast enough for the renderer. I tried using some third-party defrag software, but I quickly realized that's a terrible idea for SSDs—it does nothing and just eats through the write endurance. I shifted gears and forced a TRIM command via the CLI and verified the 4K alignment using a partition tool. In CrystalDiskMark, the random read performance climbed from 32MB/s back up to 45-51MB/s, and the loading hitches mostly vanished. The system actually felt sluggish for about 2 minutes right after the TRIM, but that was just the background garbage collection doing its thing. The drive stayed stable at 42-46℃. Benchmark tests confirm the read state is restored.
Category:Hardware Peripherals Last Updated:2026-03-28 21:28:30