This project is new and prominent recently when I learned that the Chinese community is actively buying large quantities of SDD hard drives in this country.
I think CHIA is no better than other projects when it comes to hard drive mining similar to Burst coin, Coinflux.
These guys marked the beginning of a new era of mining, as the guys from the burst team could not do. It all looks optimistic, I'm waiting for the chia to appear on popular exchanges

We are suffering from the FOMO mentality of Chinese miners. The benefits have yet to be seen, but I have seen the consequences of it as the prices of SSDs in this country soar and soon drop. Many large-capacity SSD speculators are suffering heavy losses in the wave of CHIA coin.
In general, I find mining using a hard drive or high-spec computer is wasteful. I object to these types of exploits.