Hetzner bans Chia mining after disk wear concerns

A major German hosting provider Hetzner bans mining on its servers after users began mining the cryptocurrency Chia with their hardware.

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The ban covered cloud servers, hosting services, and storage servers.

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Hetzner explained that ‘using servers for storage during mining leads to bandwidth problems for host systems’.

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with the bandwidth on the host systems. In Chia mining, the problem is also that the disks are heavily loaded by the many read and write operations and will therefore break. 2/2

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— Hetzner Online GmbH (@Hetzner_Online) May 19, 2021

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“During mining, hard disks are subjected to excessive load due to the numerous read and write processes and, consequently, fail,” said company representatives.

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Hetzner’s largest storage BX60 offers 10 TB for €47.48 per month.

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The Chia Network uses the Proof-of-Space and Proof-of-Time consensus algorithms (proofs of space and time).

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According to experts’ calculations, mining Chia reduces the lifespan of a 512 GB SSD from five years to two months. the claim by Bram Cohen, the creator of the coin, is not applicable to enterprise SSDs or hard drives.

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The Chinese SSD maker Galax said refusal of warranty service for SSDs used for mining Chia.

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Earlier, the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform offered to use its system to mine the coin, but deleted the information from its site on the same day.

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