Full use of SSD for basic operations
Full use of SSD for basic operations
Essentially, your SSD is reaching full utilization without any apparent cause. The disk health report shows everything functioning normally with only minor usage time left. However, when running basic operations like opening PDFs in Chrome, it performs perfectly at 100%. Despite extensive research, I'm still unsure how to resolve this issue. Your system specs include a Ryzen 1600, ASRock A320M-HDV, 16GB RAM (mixed sticks), and a GTX 1050 Ti.
The WD Green line SSDs don’t require a BIOS update to function properly. System operations can quickly stress these drives, especially when used for the operating system. If your drive isn’t filling up past 80% and you’re having trouble writing data, the issue might simply be speed. A free option is to upgrade your motherboard’s BIOS. Recent updates beyond the original A320 release have introduced support for SSDs using system RAM as a cache, which boosts performance when the SSD can take advantage of it. Check your motherboard’s support page for the latest BIOS version—often around 4.70 from 2018 is mentioned for M.2 NVMe compatibility. Updating might help, but it’s unlikely to resolve the problem if your SSD doesn’t actually support that feature. If you can’t afford a new drive, consider this as an alternative. BIOS updates also bring stability improvements and other features that could be useful, such as enabling a Ryzen 5000 CPU upgrade when you reach version 7.30.