My Home-Built PC Crawls And Task Manager Says The External SSD Is Pegged At 100%

not gonna lie this is driving me nuts i swear windows is cursed thx in advance!!

hmmm make a backup before u touch teh settings, learned that teh hard way lmk how it goes

+1 same here

honestly just reset teh BIOS and save yourself the pain hope that helps :)

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yeahhh exact same thing happened to my second monitor setup last month

uhh is home-built even worth bothering with or should i just leave it ?

Check which driver is in use: Device Manager > Storage controllers. If it's a vendor driver (RST, RAID or a vendor NVMe driver), try rolling back or switching to Standard NVM Express Controller / Standard SATA AHCI Controller via Update driver > Browse > Let me pick. Only do this if the BIOS mode supports it (AHCI or non-VMD).

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@leon.iqbal works on paper, not in real life but hey ymmv

+1 same here fingers crossed 🤞

any update on this?, ok this thread just saved my weekend

hmmm make a backup before u touch teh firmware, learned that the hard way

check that teh drive has free space (at least 10 to 15%) and that TRIM is enabled: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify should return 0.

@tensor_den-zl switched to the standard Microsoft controller driver. no more 100% disk and no more resets in Event Viewer.