Does low disk space kill Kioxia EXCERIA PRO performance in RDR2?
Trying to run 4K ultra textures on a 1TB drive is a joke; the space pressure is just ridiculous. When the EXCERIA PRO drops below 15% free space, the garbage collection kicks in constantly because there's no OP room, tanking reads from 7000MB/s to 1200MB/s. I tried using a compression tool on the game files, which was a huge mistake—CPU usage hit 90% and the game became a slideshow. I ended up nuking all my unused software to get free space above 30% and used a partition tool to leave 40GB as unallocated space. Sequential reads climbed back to 6200-6800MB/s and the loading hitches are mostly gone. I did have some backup software throw errors because the total capacity changed, but a quick path reconfiguration fixed it. Temps are sitting at 40-50℃ with read latency at 55-72ns. Fan speeds are holding steady at 1400-1600RPM.
