Is it normal for the Seagate Firecuda 530 1TB to have slow I/O response and long loads in Stellar Blade?

Staring at that loading bar for thirty seconds every time I launch the game is pure torture in the 4K era. The Seagate Firecuda 530 1TB controller was struggling with fragmented boot files, with random reads tanking to 0.7-1.4MB/s and the I/O queue just piling up. I tried running a disk defrag, which was a huge mistake—it actually added 8 seconds to the load time and left me feeling completely defeated. I then verified AHCI mode was on in the BIOS and tweaked the registry to set the game SSD to the highest response priority. CrystalDiskMark showed 4K reads climbing from 1.3MB/s to 3.1MB/s, and my boot time dropped from 42 seconds to 21 seconds. I did hit a boot failure after the first registry edit, but I fixed it by resetting the default boot entries and re-configuring. Temps are a cool 40-48℃. Comparative tests show the speed is back to where it should be, with random reads stable at 3.0-3.4MB/s. Settings applied.