(Image credit: Kraken Express) Windrose breached early access late last month. As you might expect from something a few port calls shy of a full release, it's not all been smooth sailing, with a number of Steam users saying that the pirate versus environment game has been hammering their SSDs. Thankfully, developer Kraken Express have now released a patch. Content creator Pixel Operative brought wider attention to the issue, by running some quick tests on the game themself and sharing their findings to X and YouTube . Apparently, when compared to similar survive 'em ups Enshrouded and Valheim , Windrose exhibited "significantly [larger] read/write numbers for less than 2 minutes of game play." This astronomical write volume could significantly shorten the lifespan of QLC SSDs (which are arguably more efficient at storing data, but generally have lower TBW ratings) or otherwise aged drives. That's definitely not good news in the midst of a memory supply crisis .…