How to optimize Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 for League?
It's honestly a joke—I bought a PCIe 5.0 drive and it's loading slower than my old SATA SSD. The Kioxia EXCERIA PLUS G4 has this annoying quirk where once the SLC cache hits 60% capacity, the write speed falls off a cliff from 10000MB/s to 1200MB/s, causing the game to freeze for 3-5 seconds during loading. I tried a full format, which just wasted 30 minutes of my life and kept the speeds hovering around 4000MB/s. I finally installed the latest NVMe drivers and used a partition tool to force a 4K alignment while killing unnecessary Windows indexing services. In CrystalDiskMark, my random 4K reads jumped from 42-55MB/s to 78-92MB/s, cutting load times by 40%. The driver update was a bit glitchy; my PC failed to boot twice before it finally settled. The drive stays between 45-58℃ thanks to the heatsink. Exported the logs and confirmed frame times are now stable at 5.1-6.4ms, though the drive still gets warm under heavy load.
