chade

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   by chade 5y ago

   Drives used for Chia farming both SSD and HDD would have very little use over time. All the discussion around Chia destroying SSD's is when they are used in the initial plotting process which does a huge amount of reads and writes in t
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   by chade 5y ago

   Spinning disks are more than fast enough for farming. Many use network connected spinning disks. Tape drive is not fast enough however.
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   by chade 5y ago

   Yes you absolutely want to be farming with spinning drives for the better price to capacity ratio as you mention! (Hopefully in a few years this will change and SSDs will overtake spinning disks in this metric) The most efficient way to sta
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   by chade 5y ago

   Think of proof of work, where you create loads of hashes for each challenge that comes in, once people came along with ASICs they could create so many more hashes in the same amount of time! The chances of finding a proof with an ASIC is di
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   by chade 5y ago

   Proof-of-space is essentially stored Proof-of-work. You are pre-filling your drive with many cryptographic hash's. When a challenge comes in the software will do a quick check to see if any of your plots could possibly have a proof (a
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   by chade 5y ago

   Plotting is the initial process of building the files that you farm with. Plotting is very CPU/Memory/Disk IO intensive and the total writes to a disk to build a ~100gb plot is over 1tb with ~260gb of temporary space used at any o