Why is my Zhitai TiPro9000 2TB slowing down in Valorant?
Every time I hit the loading screen, the progress bar would just hang at 80% for a few seconds, which was incredibly stressful. The TiPro9000's dynamic SLC cache drops from 7000MB/s to around 1500MB/s once it's over 75% full, creating a massive I/O bottleneck. I tried some third-party defrag tools first, but that was a mistake—it didn't help and just added 5GB to the SSD's wear count. After that failure, I decided to repartition and leave 15% as unallocated space for over-provisioning, then performed a 4K alignment check. In subsequent tests, the write speed stabilized from a messy 1500-4000MB/s range to a consistent 3500-4100MB/s, cutting load times by 30%. I tried a 25% reserve initially, but the game path errored out until I dialed it back to 15%. Drive temps sat at 48-56℃ and frame times stayed at 5.1-6.4ms.
