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Guru3D.com » News » Chia cryptocurrency miners ditch their SSDs and sell them at loss

Chia cryptocurrency miners ditch their SSDs and sell them at loss

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/07/2021 08:15 AM | source: hd-tecnologia | 20 comment(s)
Chia cryptocurrency  miners ditch their SSDs and sell them at loss

Chia cryptocurrency miners are dumping their hard drives and solid state drives in droves as a result of the precipitous price reduction. As a result, they were forced to swallow losses and switch to alternative currencies.

Hoang Trung, administrator of a Facebook page dedicated to Chia with over 5000 followers, tells us that he has noticed a spike in posts from people selling their hard drives.

In May, Chia's price doubled to $ 1,685 USD in a week. However, it began to decline shortly afterwards. Today, it is trading at $ 215, a loss of 87 percent.

"I am selling machinery that I purchased three months ago at a loss," Quang Thuan, a miner from Chia in southern Dong Nai province of the Republic of Vietnam, explained. Thuan entered the market in May, during a period of soaring Chia prices.

Unlike other currencies that require a lot of GPU processing power, mining this coin requires a lot of storage. As a result, a hard disk with 6 terabytes of storage rose by 60% in its day.

“I have not been able to find buyers in the last three days. I may have to reduce the price in order to mine additional currencies, ”says Thuan.

Additionally, stores sell these units. Hoang Tuan, the proprietor of a computer store in Ho Chi Minh City, believes that selling hard drives is far more difficult than selling GPUs, because to the rapid deterioration of these drives caused by Chia mining. "A 1 TB SSD lasts only 80 days when mining, but up to ten years when used normally," he continued.

“The majority of these hard disks are employed in surveillance cameras. Some gamers buy them if the prices are reasonable, ”said Nguyen Sinh, a spokesman for a computer services company in Ho Chi Minh.

"Some people buy a batch, 'repair' it, and sell it domestically or export it to China," he added.

The rush to invest in Chia started in April and quickly spread to other countries like Vietnam. Mining this coin, for example, consumes less energy than mining Bitcoin or Ethereum. Indeed, it was dubbed "green" cryptocurrency.

But the outlook is not good for Chia at the moment, especially considering that her investors are going to other currencies. We will see how the price of HDDs and SSDs behaves now that the currency is no longer booming.







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Zooke
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#5944511 Posted on: 09/07/2021 09:33 AM
""Some people buy a batch, 'repair' it, and sell it domestically or export it to China," he added."

I assume the term "repair it" is another way of saying that they rewrite the usage data statistics somehow ?

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#5944527 Posted on: 09/07/2021 12:05 PM
""Some people buy a batch, 'repair' it, and sell it domestically or export it to China," he added."

I assume the term "repair it" is another way of saying that they rewrite the usage data statistics somehow ?
yes or do nothing and sell as "near new" to someone in a country that doesn't have commercial law with their country... (via ebay, amazon or alibaba as an exemple)

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#5944530 Posted on: 09/07/2021 12:11 PM
Seeing more stuff like this for sale on Ebay. 2 months old....hammered to all hell and no doubt no chance of any warranty from WD

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#5944536 Posted on: 09/07/2021 01:05 PM
Nothing wrong with mechanical harddrives, specially when they have only been used for 2 months, Servers usually hammer harddrives for years before failure, Its SSDs what im worried about, they must have got way over used very quick and the second hand market is gonna get flodded with them, making it hard to get new cheap SSDs without falling into used chips

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#5944551 Posted on: 09/07/2021 02:12 PM
"I am selling machinery that I purchased three months ago at a loss,"
“I have not been able to find buyers in the last three days.

This put a grin on my face, up until he mentioning mining other currencies.

Anyway, I wouldn't mind buying an SSD used for mining if it was cheap enough and still has more than 50% life left. Drives that store games don't need to be written to all that often.

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