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Ask HN: Do you people also see high performance SSDs vanishing from the shelves, and going up in price at a rapid pace these days?
by baybal2 5y ago
Ask HN: Do you people also see high performance SSDs vanishing from the shelves, and going up in price at a rapid pace these days?
- ajoseps 5y agoNot sure if it’s the cause but Chia is a new-ish cryptocurrency which uses Proof-of-Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chia_(cryptocurrency)?wprov=sf... Might be related
- lgats 5y agoChia uses high-performance SSD / NVMe drives to 'mine' for plots. This is a very read/write intensive process. Once a plot is generated, it can be stored on a slower HDD for the proof-of-space to take place.
- buildbot 5y agoYes,I have a script that searches eBay for the lowest price per gb, currently prices are _equal_ to buying new for many higher performance drives. There is also far fewer enterprise drives listed than their used to be, but I don’t have a hard number for that. Just no more large fusion io drives for example.