Re: Chia Cryptocurrency

Quote from: Stickycoin1 on May 11, 2021, 10:46:33 PM

My "not so crypto experienced" crypto mining partner, is interested in setting up our old GPU rigs for this coin by getting some HDDs and running it. We currently run Antminer Z11s and have had them on for 2 solid years.

Those old computers are collecting dust, so we'd only have to invest in SSDHDDs. I'm on the fence, so I came here to see what it's all about. I'm interested in more viewpoints from those participating in the thread.

We have a bunch of Xeon based MBs and plenty of SATA drives, not a lot of SSDs. Might be worth building just to see the plot expectations. He's pushing me.. I'm just the technical expert, he's got the "megabucks" LOL

Thanks

You can plot using regular HDDs, it just takes a bit longer. Plotting one k=32 plot did take 10 hours on my SATA SSD and about 12 hours on regular HDD. I did not try it on NVMe, because I don't have one with sufficient size.
The difference in speed is not worth destroying your SSD (see bellow) in my opinion. Get more HDDs and plot on them all in parallel, one plot per drive - IF you wish to participate in this shamcoin.

Quote from: freigeist on May 11, 2021, 05:32:09 PM

Interesting article regarding Chia.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/chia-network-not-so-green-cpu-mining-reportedly-destroys-ssd-in-weeks

Is that true?
Has anybody of you already plotting
for few months to confirm that issues?!

My consumer SATA SSD (Samsung SSD 870 EVO 500GB) purposefully bought and used exclusively for chia plotting is down to 85% of its "Wear_Leveling_Count" S.M.A.R.T. attribute after about 50 or so plots (k=32). That equates to 5 TB of plotted space. I expect about 30 TB of plotted space before this drive will begin to fail. But there are better (and more pricier) SSDs on the market, you should consider them if you want to speed up your crazy train ride (see my answer above).