Its likely your write buffer ady overload even at 15% free. Try going down to 80% or 75% fill until you gain back write speed. The free space should be your limit not to touch.
For hassle free you can partition off this chunk of reserved space and keep it hidden. That way the only space you 'see' is what you can fill up to.

Might be due to RM going up again recently..

No I think even at 85% full its ady throttling write speed. So try limit to 80% full and see again. If still throttle, go down to 75% full and try again. Once you know where is the limit, partition the extra space and yeah make it w/o drive letter. The SSD will use that for write buffer cache.

Thats quite lousy thermal paste though. For the price you could get far superior TF7 (beats Kryonaut)

Crystaldisk Info, HDD Sentinel, SSD Life... your SSD brand likely have its own app.

About same price as my Gen4 S70 blade BEFORE ANY discounts from last year 11.11 sale
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=108863141

SSD prices still waaayyy too expensive. I wonder will it be the new norm now?

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Nov 11 2024, 08:08 AM

Corsair & WD Black has PS5 heatsink versions of their Gen4 drives. The prices arent too far apart from KC3000 + compatible heatsink that you might have to swap around if its too high. A lot of these HS says its compatible but didnt factor in if SSD is double or single sided. Corsair & WD gives hassle free compatibility from the box.

Not all heatsink variant is compatible with PS5, so please dont reco incompatible ones

To OP, for PS5 you specifically will be looking at "CORSAIR MP600 PRO LPX" or "MP600 ELITE for PS5" or MSI "SPATIUM M480 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 PLAY" as these HS are vetted to be fully compatible. Fury Reg HS is also vetted to fit so choose whichever you like.

EDIT
Coincidently this perfectly drops in just today https://www.techspot.com/bestof/ps5-xbox-storage-24-25/

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Nov 25 2024, 03:41 PM

IINM Pro HS variant too high to fit PS5. LPX HS version does. Elite use new Phison controller, and sold as compatible with PS5.

S70 blade dun have HS, i know cuz I using one now. S70 (non-blade) is with HS but that doesnt fit PS5, too high. If want Blade need to get 3rd party HS which may or may not fit cuz 2TB above version is double sided.

WD SN850X HS variant is normal SSD that can fit both PC & PS5.

Dun compare BF prices with normal. Its their megasale season, post BF it will bounce back to normal high level. If Trump impose more antiChina tarriffs the prices will either remain high or go higher.

Its only depreciating when there is no market interference. But we dont live in an ideal world. How else you explain mine S70 blade 2TB I bought 2023 for RM 400+ now cost RM 600+ in 2024?
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=108863141

Fury Reg is a good choice, practically its the same hardware as that Corsair.

WD SSD is marketed as an integrated solution so your getting more consistent quality, availability, the price gap also somewhat justifies with having overall better performance than all Phison based Gen4 SSD, and with free cloning software tho this isnt beneficial to you if used for PS5, and generally WD has the better branding name for storage matters and should have faster RMA turnaround (their SSD are Made in Msia unlike nearly all others).

For those who can that bit more for peace of mind, its WD or Samsung.

WD flagships seems to have less problems than Samsung, with both gen 980pro & 990pro had premature death firmware. For the now if Im gonna pay that much it would be to WD based on track record. Of course things might change in future.

Seagate 530 basically same hardware as KC3000 & MP600Pro but you pay more for the longer warranty & much higher TBW, otherwise its overpriced for what it is.

Only if you live in USA or Western EU....

What do you want to know which isnt already known about DRAMless SSD? Okay for storage, better than NV2 as it nears Gen4 max speed, but meh as OS drive since its DRAMless & likely QLC.

Im more interested to know why the writer had such high SSD failure rates esp KC2500 & KC3000, since KC been constantly reco here.

Good to do it but not really needed, these updates dont really give big boost or anything. Security holes also dont affect PS5 cuz I havent heard of PS/Xbox kena hack before.

You can reuse in PC, but take care if it was used alot then lifespan will have reduce alot.

A lot of enterprise/server standards dont really gets filtered down to consumer segment, such as SCSI. Storage redundancy too (ie caps inside) doesnt appear for general usage even if its a good idea.

KC3000 getting hot again. Guys reminder to update your firmware!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comme...rs_update_your/

If can get so much discounts i think may be more worth shooting for 4TB SSD

Lazada? Thats a f88king good deal

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Dec 18 2024, 05:19 PM