Optimizing Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB cache for Callisto Protocol?
This 4TB drive is a beast for storage, but once the SLC cache fills up, the speed drops faster than a rock. While loading that creepy underground facility, my read speeds plummeted from 7000MB/s to a pathetic 600MB/s, freezing the game for three whole seconds. It was infuriating. I tried disabling virtual memory, but the game just crashed instantly—talk about a failed experiment. I eventually went into Device Manager, forced the NVMe queue depth to 2048, and disabled write cache flushing in the system options. In CrystalDiskMark, my 4K random reads climbed back from 50MB/s to around 72-78MB/s, cutting load times nearly in half. I did run into some weird drive detection delays during idle after the queue depth tweak, but switching the power plan to High Performance killed that issue. The drive stayed between 48-56℃, and the heatsink was warm to the touch. Exported the R/W logs and saw the fan stable at 1400-1600RPM.
