Improving Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB read speeds in Mass Effect
Every time my ship jumped between systems, the loading bar would just hang at 99% for several seconds, which is incredibly frustrating after a high-intensity fight. Once the SLC cache on the Zhitai TiPro9000 4TB fills up, sequential writes tank from 7000MB/s to a pathetic 1200-1500MB/s, creating a massive I/O bottleneck during asset decompression. I tried moving the game to an old SATA SSD to compare, but that just added 20 seconds to the load time—a mindless trial-and-error move that proved the issue was cache scheduling. I installed the latest vendor NVMe driver and disabled write cache flushing in Windows performance options, manually setting the queue depth to 2048. 4K random reads improved from 55MB/s to 72-78MB/s, and jumps now take under 3 seconds. I did hit a snag where the system froze during shutdown after disabling the flush policy, but enabling Fast Boot fixed it. Temps stay between 45-52℃. The I/O curve is finally flat, and the settings are locked in.
