Fixing Great Wall GW3300 2TB read/write swings in The Division?
This drive was a total nightmare for open-world assets; after ten minutes of combat, the read speed would just fall off a cliff from 3000MB/s to 500MB/s. The controller on the GW3300 2TB just can't handle random small files without overheating, which triggers a brutal throttling mechanism. I tried lowering the PCIe link speed in the BIOS, but that just cut my performance by 30% while barely helping the heat—a complete fail. I finally used a partition tool to force a 4K alignment optimization and set the M.2 power management to maximum performance. In HWInfo, the wild 500-3000MB/s swings narrowed down to a stable 2200-2600MB/s, and the frame drops basically stopped. I did run into a boot error after re-partitioning, but fixing the BCD record got me back in. SSD temps now sit at 55-62℃. Stress tests show the curve is finally smooth. Config backed up.