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So, it's Chia all over again? [1] Sometimes, I think government supply control isn't that much of a bad thing. That way, the government could force the availab

So, it's Chia all over again? [1] Sometimes, I think government supply control isn't that much of a bad thing. That way, the government could force the availability of goods for the common market as well and not just for the really big dogs flush with ample VC money to burn who can pay any price. [1] For the uninitiated: a cryptocurrency where the limiting factor wasn't CPU, RAM or GPU compute resource, but storage - in 2021, there was so much craze around it that HDD and SSD prices exploded, and after the bubble collapsed a lot of heavily abused drives flooded the markets.

LTL_FTC 1y ago
Chia was/is WORM (write once , read many) so not sure how these drives were heavily abused? As a storage nerd, I bought many 18tb drives for chia and they are still spinning just fine in my storage arrays. It’s been five years.
- mschuster91 1y ago
  Honestly no idea, all I 'member is reporting from back in ye olde days [1]. Damn, time really flies. [1] https://www.techpowerup.com/281979/chia-farming-already-causing-ssds-to-fail-at-scale-storage-device-shortages-on-the-horizon https://www.techpowerup.com/281979/chia-farming-already-caus...