Question Usage and latency spikes on Agile Gear 1TB NVMe SSD ?

[fantasaga]

So i bought this ASUS Vivobook 16 something non-OLED (RTX 2050, i5-12500h) to replace my trusty old Thinkpad that had a faulty fan, and while doing some light gaming usage (geometry dash and web html games) I felt some lag spikes. Looking at Task Manager, when the lag comes back, the SSD usage spikes to 100% for a short amount of time, and the "Average Response Time" spikes to thousands of milliseconds. Happens once in a while, though often enough it becomes annoying. Help much appreciated!

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[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Can you open up Device Manager and see what the drive's make and model is? I can't find any hits with the one stated in Performance tab.

If the OS was what you got our of the box, I'd first start with making sure you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard. Following that, you can see if the OS is pending any updates. Following that, you can right click on your drive in This PC>Properties>See if the option for drive indexing is enabled. If it is, remove the check and apply.

If that doesn't alleviate the issue, I'd create a bootable USB installer for the OS, then reinstall said OS in offline mode, then manually install all drivers necessary for your laptop in an elevated command(while offline).

ASUS Vivobook 16 something non-OLED (RTX 2050, i5-12500h)
Might want to pass on an SKU to your Asus laptop.

 

[fantasaga]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Can you open up Device Manager and see what the drive's make and model is? I can't find any hits with the one stated in Performance tab.

If the OS was what you got our of the box, I'd first start with making sure you're on the latest BIOS version for your motherboard. Following that, you can see if the OS is pending any updates. Following that, you can right click on your drive in This PC>Properties>See if the option for drive indexing is enabled. If it is, remove the check and apply.

If that doesn't alleviate the issue, I'd create a bootable USB installer for the OS, then reinstall said OS in offline mode, then manually install all drivers necessary for your laptop in an elevated command(while offline).

ASUS Vivobook 16 something non-OLED (RTX 2050, i5-12500h)
Might want to pass on an SKU to your Asus laptop.

The drive is a AGI1T0G43AI818. Link to their web: https://agi-gear.com/product/ai818-m-2-pcie-gen4-ssd/.
For the OS, i have Linux Mint alongside Windows 11, and i also updated everything from BIOS, windows itself, chipset, controller, etc. Linux mint performs much, MUCH better than windows, ALMOST no frame drops.
Vivobook: K3605ZF model
Just turned off the drive indexing. (also figured out why some searches of file NAMES in File Explorer show some txts, docxs and some other random stuff that has the file names in it.)
Now i will try playing some games, run crystalbench and tell my status later.