Hard disk mining is booming: Chia coin exceeds 10EB storage scale and shows no signs of slowing down

Original title: Hard disk mining is booming: Chia coin exceeds 10EB storage scale, and there is still no sign of slowing down

Original source: Lazy Cat, IT Home

IT Home reported on May 24 that in April this year, with the increasing popularity of Chia mining, the market supply and demand of SSDs became increasingly tight, and large-capacity SSDs were also announced to be in short supply.

According to foreign media Wccftech, Chia coin attracted a lot of attention a month ago when some hard disk products in the Japanese market began to be out of stock. At that time, the scale of this cryptocurrency was less than 600PB. Within a month, its scale has grown sharply from 600PB to 10EB (Note: 1PB=1024TB, 1EB=1024PB).

IT Home learned that SSD hard drives are used as temporary storage disks for fast reading and writing in the Chia mining system. There will be a large number of disk read and write operations during the entire calculation process. A 100GB plot file requires 2TB of read and write capacity, which consumes a lot of SSD.

Previously, Jiahe Jinwei stated that Chia mining will seriously reduce the life of SSDs, so manufacturers and players need to consider SSD warranty issues and mining disk outflow issues caused by mining.

IT Home learned that SSD hard drives are used as temporary storage disks for fast reading and writing in the Chia mining system. There will be a large number of disk read and write operations during the entire calculation process. A 100GB plot file requires 2TB of read and write capacity, which consumes a lot of SSD.

Previously, Jiahe Jinwei stated that Chia mining will seriously reduce the life of SSDs, so manufacturers and players need to consider SSD warranty issues and mining disk outflow issues caused by mining.