Does the Intel 660P 2TB cause frame drops in RDR2 with 4K MODs due to low random reads? Will a page file help?

Running a 4K texture pack on this QLC drive felt like trying to play a modern game off a thumb drive; loading into a town took an eternity. Once the cache ran dry, the Intel 660P 2TB's random 4K reads plummeted to 15-22MB/s, causing horrific texture popping. I tried lowering the settings to medium, but the game just looked blurry and still stuttered—a complete waste of time. I eventually manually set the virtual memory to a fixed 32GB-64GB range, forced it onto the fastest flash area, and killed Windows Search indexing. In RTSS, my frame time graph went from looking like an EKG to a smooth 18-25ms line. I'll admit, my boot time slowed down by about 8 seconds initially until I cleaned up my startup items. The drive stays between 38-45℃ with power draw at 4-6W. I exported all the latency data via a profiler to confirm the fix. Data exported.