Pirate survival game Windrose was accidentally killing your SSD

The story

No, you weren't being silly. Pirate survival game Windrose really was making your SSD work way too hard. Read more

From the source

To quickly fill you in, following the game's early access release last month, many Windrose players found themselves experiencing unusually high I/O (that's Input/Output) workloads in certain situations. As reported by TechSpot , there were times when Windrose was "reading and writing large amounts of data to disk", with the publication noting there could be "spikes of up to 30MB/s when the player's character was roaming around a base".

Meanwhile, YouTuber Pixel Operative 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'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' SSD to do way too much work, and many worried this would result in damage to their hardware.

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Key names and topics in this story: Pirate, Windrose.

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