{"id":1920705,"date":"2026-05-06T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920705"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:40:13","slug":"pirate-survival-game-windrose-was-accidentally-killing-your-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1920705","title":{"rendered":"Pirate survival game Windrose was accidentally killing your SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/windrose\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Windrose<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Pirate survival game Windrose was accidentally killing your SSD<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Nervous wrecks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/Template-w-shadow%2C-blue%2C-split%2C-switch-2-(4).jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Windrose pirates overlaid on a blue background of SSD cards\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"Template-w-shadow%2C-blue%2C-split%2C-switch-2-(4).jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Eurogamer<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1644925423.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Victoria Phillips Kennedy avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1644925423.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/victoria-kennedy\">Victoria Phillips Kennedy<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-05-06T11:40:13+00:00\">May 6, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/windrose-pirate-survival-ssd?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          3 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"8de823af-9cbd-4269-9ae1-67d757a69ebd\" data-name=\"Windrose\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Windrose\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Windrose\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Windrose\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Windrose\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Windrose\" title=\"Follow Windrose\"><br \/>\n  Follow Windrose<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>No, you weren&#8217;t being silly. Pirate survival game Windrose really was making your SSD work way too hard.<\/p>\n<p>To quickly fill you in, following the game&#8217;s early access release last month, many Windrose players found themselves experiencing unusually high I\/O (that&#8217;s Input\/Output) workloads in certain situations. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/112271-early-access-pirate-game-quietly-killing-ssd-without.html\">TechSpot<\/a>, there were times when Windrose was &#8220;reading and writing large amounts of data to disk&#8221;, with the publication noting there could be &#8220;spikes of up to 30MB\/s when the player&#8217;s character was roaming around a base&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Windrose - Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEUNq2eHrNI?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DEUNq2eHrNI\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Windrose &#8211; Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Windrose &#8211; Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DEUNq2eHrNI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=frQ9gOQ-8pc\">YouTuber Pixel Operative<\/a> noted Windrose could write up to 108GB\/hour to an SSD (a write is the process of saving data to the drive), which could wear down the tech. In layman&#8217;s terms and just like any tool such as a mobile phone battery, the more usage an SSD gets, the more it gets worn down, until eventually it dies altogether. In the case of Windrose, the game was forcing players&#8217; SSD to do way too much work, and many worried this would result in damage to their hardware.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, though, these issues should now be a thing of the past, as Windrose developer Kraken Express <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/3041230\">released a patch<\/a> which, among other things, fixes &#8220;unnecessary CPU usage on idle servers and clients&#8221; as well as reducing the disk usage during gameplay. Huzzah, and long live the SSDs! A more recent Windrose patch has also implemented a new storage and backup system for save files, as well as adding an updated Wolf Head item icon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these SSD niggles, Windrose has still been a success for Kraken Express (unexpected spot of poetry, there). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/windrose-1m-copies-celebration\">Windrose shifted 1m copies in just six days<\/a>, with the developer calling the fan support &#8220;truly heart-warming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Our Matt took the earlier Windrose demo out for a whirl, and he had a ship shape time with it. &#8220;Windrose already has my piratical heart aflame,&#8221; he wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-five-hours-with-highly-anticipated-pirate-survival-game-windrose-i-can-see-why-its-one-of-steams-most-wishlisted-games\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Windrose feature<\/a>. &#8220;I went from optimistic to completely sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>No, you weren&#8217;t being silly. Pirate survival game Windrose really was making your SSD work way too hard.<\/p>\n<p>To quickly fill you in, following the game&#8217;s early access release last month, many Windrose players found themselves experiencing unusually high I\/O (that&#8217;s Input\/Output) workloads in certain situations. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/112271-early-access-pirate-game-quietly-killing-ssd-without.html\">TechSpot<\/a>, there were times when Windrose was &#8220;reading and writing large amounts of data to disk&#8221;, with the publication noting there could be &#8220;spikes of up to 30MB\/s when the player&#8217;s character was roaming around a base&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Windrose - Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEUNq2eHrNI?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/DEUNq2eHrNI\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Windrose &#8211; Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Windrose &#8211; Official Gameplay Publisher Trailer. <a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DEUNq2eHrNI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=frQ9gOQ-8pc\">YouTuber Pixel Operative<\/a> noted Windrose could write up to 108GB\/hour to an SSD (a write is the process of saving data to the drive), which could wear down the tech. In layman&#8217;s terms and just like any tool such as a mobile phone battery, the more usage an SSD gets, the more it gets worn down, until eventually it dies altogether. In the case of Windrose, the game was forcing players&#8217; SSD to do way too much work, and many worried this would result in damage to their hardware.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, though, these issues should now be a thing of the past, as Windrose developer Kraken Express <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/3041230\">released a patch<\/a> which, among other things, fixes &#8220;unnecessary CPU usage on idle servers and clients&#8221; as well as reducing the disk usage during gameplay. Huzzah, and long live the SSDs! A more recent Windrose patch has also implemented a new storage and backup system for save files, as well as adding an updated Wolf Head item icon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these SSD niggles, Windrose has still been a success for Kraken Express (unexpected spot of poetry, there). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/windrose-1m-copies-celebration\">Windrose shifted 1m copies in just six days<\/a>, with the developer calling the fan support &#8220;truly heart-warming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Our Matt took the earlier Windrose demo out for a whirl, and he had a ship shape time with it. &#8220;Windrose already has my piratical heart aflame,&#8221; he wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-five-hours-with-highly-anticipated-pirate-survival-game-windrose-i-can-see-why-its-one-of-steams-most-wishlisted-games\">Eurogamer&#8217;s Windrose feature<\/a>. &#8220;I went from optimistic to completely sold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Windrose Pirate survival game Windrose was accidentally killing your SSD Nervous wrecks. 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