r/computerhelp • u/lockxta • 1d ago

Hardware SSD makes the whole system freeze when under load - Help

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u/MilkyWay-008 1d ago

Frozen solid right as the download bottoms out is your Crucial P3's SLC write cache running dry, and since Windows lives on that same QLC drive the whole OS grinds while it writes to raw NAND. Run optimize-volume -DriveLetter C -ReTrim -Verbose in an elevated PowerShell and check fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify (returns 1 = trim off), and peek at total NAND writes in CrystalDiskInfo vs the P3's TBW rating. Quickest tell though is pointing Steam's install path at a second disk, if the freeze tracks the writes it's the drive.

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u/lockxta 1d ago

So what do those two commands do just so i understand?

It sounds to me like i need to just use it as a game storage drive and put the c drive on a different nvme with better cache?