Mining the Chia cryptocurrency shortens the lifespan of a 512GB SSD from five years to two months, according to MyDrivers.<\/p>\n
During 40\u201350 days of mining, a 512GB SSD would rewrite 256TB of data, whereas the typical daily write volume for such disks is no more than 20GB.<\/p>\n
A 1TB SSD wears out in under three months, and 2TB drives in six months.<\/p>\n
Because SSD manufacturers do not guarantee drives that have exhausted their usable life, experts expect most will end up on the secondary market. Even at a lower price, the speed and endurance of such SSDs will be significantly limited.<\/p>\n
As of writing, the total disk space occupied by the Chia cryptocurrency \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0432\u044b\u0448\u0430\u0435\u0442 3,1 \u044d\u043a\u0441\u0430\u0431\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0430<\/a>. \u0426\u0435\u043d\u0430 XCH \u2013 $1073<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chia Network, created by Bram Cohen, uses the Proof-of-Space and Proof-of-Time [proofs of space and time].<\/p>\n On the wave of hype around the coin, miners created a local shortage of HDDs and SSDs in China<\/a>.<\/p>\n The local solid-state drive maker Galax warned users that it would refuse warranty service for SSDs<\/a> used for mining Chia.<\/p>\n Earlier, the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform offered to use its system for mining Chia, but deleted the information from the site<\/a> on the same day.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mining the Chia cryptocurrency shortens the lifespan of a 512GB SSD from five years to two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2132,1137],"class_list":["post-42148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-chia-network","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42150,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42148\/revisions\/42150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}