Why is Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB slowing down in Death Stranding 2?
Trying to run the massive maps in DS2 on this drive felt like pushing a car through deep mud; the slowdowns were almost comical. The Kioxia EXCERIA PRO 2TB's response times spiked to 75-105ms during heavy environment requests, leading to frequent black screens. I even tried installing the game on a RAM disk, but I ran out of memory and the whole system crashed halfway through—a total overkill attempt that failed miserably. I then ran a two-hour random read/write stress test and saw temps hit 68-75℃ in HWiNFO, which triggered thermal throttling and halved my speeds. I disabled all background update services and set the power plan to 'Ultimate Performance'. CrystalDiskMark showed random reads jumping from 35 MB/s to 48-55 MB/s, shaving about 6 seconds off load times. My idle power draw went up by 3W, so I had to set a sleep timer to keep things sane. Temps now stabilize at 48-55℃, and my fan noise is a constant 1400-1600RPM.
