Managing Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 write pressure in MH Wilds?
This drive is insanely fast, but it's so fast it actually makes my motherboard bus give up. Saving the game felt like playing Russian roulette. On PCIe 5.0, the G4 hits peaks of 11GB/s, which just overloaded the I/O controller on my mid-range board. I tried updating the BIOS, but that just added 5 seconds to my boot time without stopping the crashes—it felt like trying to catch water with a sieve. I eventually used a third-party tool to cap the max write bandwidth at 7GB/s and killed unnecessary background indexing. In OCCT disk stress tests, the hourly blue screens totally vanished. At first, I set the limit too low and saves took 10 seconds instead of 1, so I had to find that 7GB/s sweet spot. Temps are sitting at 58-65℃. I exported all the I/O error timestamps from the crash logs to confirm the fix.
