I am noticing extreme latency when booting Total War: Warhammer III on my WD Black drive; an annoying hardware handshake glitch.

Referencing Log-File 202603F on Windows 11; running sensor self-diagnostics, I found interface command latency drifting wildly between 20ms and 50ms, with peaks hitting 120ms which almost triggered a drive disconnect glitch. I skipped the common reboots and went straight into the low-level hardware utility to force-reset the sensor calibration probes. Immediately after, R/W latency dropped back to a healthy 1ms to 3ms range. That gripping anxiety of being stuck at 99% on the loading bar vanished, replaced by a rock steady and snappy flow. Interestingly, when saving heavily fragmented game states, I still see tiny spikes in response time, likely an NTFS index limitation. After three cycles of load tests, the deviation sat at about 2%, ensuring no more glitchy drive drops.