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I stumbled upon an interview with the actual Chia <s>miner</s> farmer, he claims best SSDs will stay healthy for about a year, and having SSD is a must. Plottin
by YarickR2 5y ago
I stumbled upon an interview with the actual Chia <s>miner</s> farmer, he claims best SSDs will stay healthy for about a year, and having SSD is a must. Plotting should be done on an SSD (preferably as an NVMe), since this process involves creating 300Gb temp file on the same device that will be used to form a plot.
Actual interview [0] is in Russian, but I guess you could get a decent Google Translate-processed English translation .
[0] https://habr.com/ru/company/ruvds/blog/554046/ https://habr.com/ru/company/ruvds/blog/554046/
- wruza 5y agoThis was really precious, spasibo! Especially for warnings on [not] using regular disks. But from what I learned there, Chia is not a consumer’s tech, cause mainnet already requires huge TBW per dollar ratio, which ubiquitous Samsung EVO/Pro and alikes cannot do. It goes miners-are-special-hardware route again, sadly.
- neurostimulant 5y agoI wonder if it's feasible to use a ramdrive for the temp file. Or maybe the miners already run the number and decided it's cheaper to burn a stack of SSD every once in a while instead of investing in nodes with huge ram.
- reelen 5y agoThat would only be with enterprise class SSDs. I’ve been plotting on both consumer and enterprise and the former’s lifespan won’t be more than 3-4 months.