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The thing with hard drives: if chia bombs, you can still turn around and sell them on Ebay. And when they're 14tb+ drives, they'll retain their value for a dece
by meesterdude 5y ago
The thing with hard drives: if chia bombs, you can still turn around and sell them on Ebay. And when they're 14tb+ drives, they'll retain their value for a decent time.
you can't do that with miners, and GPU's are still fairly specific components. But plenty of companies and people have all sorts of needs for extra space.
I mean - if we're going to be scaling anything... hard drives are the thing. And if there are any storage optimizations people come up with, those will only benefit the storage industry overall; unlike ASIC miners, for example.
- tracedddd 5y agoThe drives are reportedly destroyed from the process relatively rapidly. So no, I’d probably not plan to be able to resell drives on eBay later.
- wmf 5y agoSSDs are destroyed but HDDs are not.
- skybrian 5y agoThat's only part of the process (precomputing the large files you need to win). Once you have the files, they can be stored anywhere and that storage is only lightly used.
- meesterdude 5y agoit depends on the drives. CAN you destroy drives by plotting? yes. But other drives can take quite a beating - and generate 40K plots worth of data before reaching failure point. additionally, farming (serving plots) is done with regular drives, and those are very lightly read from and used once the plots are loaded.
- rambojazz 5y agoWhat is "plotting" more exactly, and why does it destroy SSDs (but not HDDs)?
- aussieguy1234 5y agoThis wouldn't stop an unscrupulous seller from almost wearing out an SSD, then selling it on eBay to an unsuspecting buyer as a "working SSD" and buying a new one
- ihumanable 5y agoI don't know much about Chia, but I've read some stories about how Chia plotting just destroys SSDs. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-crypto-farming-can-destroy-ssds https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-crypto-farming-can-de... But I'm no expert so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. [I see from other comments that this is bad for SSDs but not so much for HDDs]