How to calibrate Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB for Project Orion?
This drive was acting like a cheap thumb drive when handling the massive city data; random reads dropped to a pathetic 50 MB/s. The fragmented loading was just ridiculous. I tried a standard Windows defrag, which was a total waste of time and probably just added unnecessary wear to the SSD. I then used a partition tool and found the offset wasn't 4K aligned. I wiped the partition and updated the drivers. In CrystalDiskMark, the 4K random reads jumped from 70k to 100k IOPS, with temps staying between 48°C - 55°C. I actually accidentally deleted a boot file during the first attempt because I was paranoid about backups, which was a huge pain to restore. But once it was done, the scene transitions became seamless. No more annoying hitches. It's kind of funny that a partition offset was the culprit, but it worked. Fan speeds are now steady at 1400-1600RPM.
