Sabrent Releases Chia Mining dedicated NVMe SSD rated 54PBW for the 2TB SSD

#5916573 Posted on: 05/31/2021 05:07 PM

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unlike some companies, at least they're honest about where the product is going: or should I say staying?

#5916578 Posted on: 05/31/2021 05:38 PM

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ˇ...Prices have not yet been announced...."

Prices for these are going to be a walletrippers for sure. Lucky us here on G3D, most of us here are not into this chia bullshit so we're not the targeted audience when it comes to these products.

#5916598 Posted on: 05/31/2021 07:01 PM

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5577

apparently they are buying at this rate and burning a 970pro every couple minutes and yet prices arent exactly skyrocketing

maybe in this scenario we end up winning for once, nand producers get kicked into gear to produce 2tb+ drives like there's no tomorrow and after the damn thing crashes we see HDD price parity or better, SSDs are way cheaper in terms of storage/shipping so their price floor is actually lower than HDDs

#5916613 Posted on: 05/31/2021 08:22 PM

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From one import company here in Serbia we got e-mail this morning about available SSDs supplies fore preorder. Few SSDs from Samsung and WD ranging from 1TB to 2TB were declared with just 1 month warranty, wtf!? Not sure what models they were, iirc 980 from Samsung and SN"something" form WD, gonna check tommorow that e-mail if I don't forget until then...

What does this actually means:
1). Were they already (ab)used in some chia farm, then refurbed with factory/third party cleared S.M.A.R.T. and returned to stock fore re-sale like new ones?
2). Or maybe local Serbian importer is aware/sure these are going to end up in some chia farm here and likely to die within few months, that's why they want to be sure RMA isn't going to be valid for those bought these?

I don't like this neither option 1). or 2) because us regular SSD users we're going to be scrued.

Don't know how they (import company) is going to get away with this because our law clearly states anything tech related in retails has to be with at least 2 year warranty. Refubrished tech (there are refubrished HDDs here on the market, mostly pulled from old servers and DVR systems) can be with lower warranty but if that's the case it clearly has to be noted product is refubrished and only then warranty period can be lowered. But for those 1TB and 2TB SSDs I was talking about above not a single word about if they were refurbed already. Something suspicious is going on here and at the end of the line only regular SSD users are going to end up screwed...

As far as I can see chia farming is in rise here in Serbia, people are investing lots of cash into "chia optimised" PCs with lots of storage and most of them probably doesn't have a clue how this scammy system works. Few months from now when those people realise what they were throwing money for I'm expecting 2nd hand market is going to be flooded with chia exhausted or completely trashed SSDs with short descriptions inside ads: "...pulled from workin PC, condition unknow, not tested, probably working, without warranty...". Saw a lot of ads for trashed GPUs from mining farms in past year or two with same explanation inside ads, one seller sold literarily hundreds of GPUs that way, probably imported from some foreign country, sad thing is that desperate (and stupid, what else to say) people were buying these previously not reading comments about the seller, all previous buyers were complaining that not a single GPU has been in working condition.

Here is one of these scammy sellers:

https://www.limundo.com/Clan/stepovic011/SpisakAukcija

...and not a single "untested" piece of tech he's selling is in working order, just a few translated comments:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.limundo.com/Clan/stepovic011_strana_7&sandbox=1

And people are still bidding for the junk he's selling, how stupid is that...

edit
Here is the preorder list of SSDs I've mentioned yesterday on the tap of this wall of txt, all these with just 1 month warranty:

SSD M.2 SATA 2TB Samsung 970EVO Plus MZ-V7S2T0BW
SSD M.2 2TB Samsung 980 PRO MZ-V8P2T0BW
SSD M.2 2TB WD Black WDS200T3X0C

Price tag for these... it's just insane, don't even worth mentioning...

#5916630 Posted on: 05/31/2021 10:47 PM

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So, that means the SSDs are breaking before reaching the write cap? That would indeed leave the manufacturers in a bad position.