How to stabilize Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 in Metro Awakening?
Whenever I hit a scene transition in those dark tunnels, the disk write latency would suddenly skyrocket over 500ms, which is nerve-wracking during key story moments. The SLC cache on the Kioxia Exceria Plus G4 seemed to have a logic conflict with fragmented data, throwing a 0x0000007 error. I tried forcing the PCIe slot to 4.0 mode, but that just killed my read speeds by 40% and the crashes still happened—it was an exhausting process of trial and error. I eventually disabled write caching in Device Manager and forced Unit Refresh, which stabilized writes at 4.2-4.8GB/s. At first, this actually made saving take longer, but once I updated to the latest official firmware, the response time snapped back. The drive now fluctuates between 55-62℃ with minimal fan noise. Checking the latency curves, the command queuing is gone, and the game feels much more responsive to my inputs.
