{"id":46361,"date":"2021-07-20T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T07:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46361"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:00:46","slug":"pny-to-release-chia-mining-ssd-with-write-endurance-up-to-54-petabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pny-to-release-chia-mining-ssd-with-write-endurance-up-to-54-petabytes\/","title":{"rendered":"PNY to release Chia-mining SSD with write endurance up to 54 petabytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PNY has announced the release of new solid-state drives characterised by high write endurance and high throughput, designed to meet the demands of hardware used for mining the Chia cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PNY is excited to deliver the first Chia\u00ae certified SSD designed for plotting, introducing PNY LX2030 and LX3030 M.2 NVMe Gen3 x4 SSDs.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvZX4VxEDv\">https:\/\/t.co\/RvZX4VxEDv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S84yfTaQ9A\">pic.twitter.com\/S84yfTaQ9A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PNY Technologies (@PNYTechnologies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PNYTechnologies\/status\/1416023579435618307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The lineup comprises the LX2030 model with a 2 TB capacity and two LX3030 units with 1 TB and 2 TB respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The endurance of the standard 2 TB version is 10,000 <span class=\"old_tooltip\" data-descr=\"total number of bytes written\">TBW<\/span>. For the 1 TB LX3030, this figure reaches 27,000, and for the 2 TB version \u2014 54,000 TBW.<\/p>\n<p>According to the manufacturer, the high figures were achieved thanks to Lifextension technology, which enables managing the drive via AI algorithms to identify and rectify errors more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>The M.2 2280 form factor drives are equipped with PCIe Gen 3 x4 interface. Read speed of the LX3030 reaches 3200 MB\/s, write speed 2400 MB\/s. For the LX2030 the maximum values are 3200 MB\/s and 1000 MB\/s, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer did not disclose prices.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, PNY reduced the lifespan of the XLR8 CS3030 SSD series due to Chia miners. The endurance of some models fell by <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pny-cuts-ssd-write-endurance-by-almost-80-amid-chia-miners\">almost 80%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the cloud service Backblaze conducted calculations showing that even with free disk space, mining Chia would become <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/backblaze-estimates-chia-mining-profitability\">unprofitable as early as the fourth month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNY has announced the release of new solid-state drives characterised by high write endurance and high throughput, designed to meet the requirements of hardware used for mining the Chia cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46362,"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-46361","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":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361","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=46361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46363,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46361\/revisions\/46363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}