Your C: drive keeps jumping to full capacity unexpectedly in Windows 10 64-bit.
Your C: drive keeps jumping to full capacity unexpectedly in Windows 10 64-bit.
Hello, your C: Drive is experiencing sudden spikes in usage, causing your PC to freeze frequently—sometimes lasting over five seconds. Despite being an SSD with only 94% health according to CrystalDiskInfo, the drive isn’t fully utilized and still functions at a basic level. Your system specs include a Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, an Intel 1070Ti processor, and a 750W power supply. You have only the operating system and a few applications installed. After trying various troubleshooting steps, I’m unsure what caused it, especially since it seems to worsen after using Unreal Engine 5. Additionally, random stuttering has started in multiple games since you upgraded to a 1440p monitor. I’m hoping someone can help without recommending a full reinstall. Any advice on disk management tools would be appreciated?
Based on what I've seen, your SSD lacks DRAM cache and tends to lag significantly after frequent writes or when usage exceeds its limits without prebuffering. When performing drive tasks, memory consumption rises noticeably, especially if Dramless boosts paging. Similar problems appeared with DRAMless drives, though better quality units might perform differently. From my limited experience with several DRAMless SSDs recently, this pattern is consistent.
Oh yeah sorry, it's not really a known brand. It's a french brand called LDLC, it's a tech store like NewEgg or any other like it but they also make hardware with their brand so who knows what's inside. They don't have this particular SSD listed anymore so i don't really know but this: https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00244366.html is the same model, i just have the 240gb one. (I attached a screenshot from CrystalDiskInfo). The thing is, it didn't use to slow down like that, if it's DRAMless it would have always been like this but it's not the case and that's what confuses me the most, it's like it slowed down over night almost Well my memory usage when migrating assets/loading a big level in UE5 is maxed(Kind of weird since i have UE5 and the projects on a Samsung 860 QVO 1TB i use to store games on), it uses 16gb, it also uses near if not 100% of my CPU when i migrated/loaded a lot of assets at once.