How to optimize Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB cache for Dragon's Dogma 2?
The fast travel loading screen would just spin forever, making it feel like I was back on a decade-old mechanical hard drive. Once the SLC cache on the Zhitai TiPro9000 1TB fills up with temp files, the sequential read speed craters from 7000MB/s to around 1200MB/s, which is honestly a joke for a drive this price. I tried clearing out the system temp folders, but that only saved me about 0.5 seconds—a completely pointless effort. I eventually installed the latest vendor NVMe drivers, disabled unnecessary indexing services in Windows Disk Management, and switched the write cache policy to 'Force Flush'. In CrystalDiskMark, random 4K reads climbed from 55-62MB/s to 72-81MB/s. I did notice that disabling indexing made searching for files slower at first, so I had to manually re-index my core folders. The drive stayed between 48℃ - 56℃ thanks to the heatsink. I exported all the latency logs to verify the fix, and the fan stayed steady at 1400-1600 RPM.
