Kioxia EXCERIA G2 Queue Lock
It's ironic that a 2TB drive struggles so much with massive small-file loading; the loading screen time literally doubled. I first tried updating the firmware, but the speed increase was negligible, leaving me feeling helpless. I opened GamePP NVMe Queue Depth Configuration, locked the read queue depth to 64, and optimized the storage controller's interrupt handling. Random read performance improved by 20% per CrystalDiskMark, 4K reads hit 20-35MB/s via AIDA64, and temperatures remained stable at 40-52℃ per HWMonitor.
