SSD Makers start warning that Mining Products Like Chia Coin Will Void Warranty
A new trend in cryptocurrency mining is using SSDs for Chia Coins mining. And that can heavily affect the lifespan of an SSD. The first manufacturers now have started altering Warranty claims.
The mining of the Chia Coin cryptocurrency will cause significant wear and tear on SSDs, GALAX has issued a warning to customers:
“If users use our SSDs for mining/farming and other abnormal operations, the data writing volume is much higher than the standard for daily use, and the SSD will slow down or get damaged due to excessive data writing volume. Due to the tests carried out, the damages are qualitative according to the test results, and that is why according to the quality assurance standards of our SSDs, we have the right to refuse to provide warranty services. The right of final interpretation belongs to the company. "
With ChiaCoin, instead of solving equations, a miner's requirement is to store data on their storage devices. This is known as farming, rather than mining. The faster someone can store files, and the more quantity they can store, the higher the chance of getting their compensation from the network.
Chia Coin cryptocurrency is gaining great popularity in the Asia Pacific region, especially in China. Chia Coin extraction requires large amounts of free space in addition to executing many read and write operations. Here durability is as important as speed, which is why consumer SSDs are not the best choice for mini. Some Chinese manufacturers have announced SSDs and mining-specific storage devices that are currently in mass production and expected to be released soon, but they could just be normal products that only have a mining-friendly label.
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What the hell galax is smoking ? Ssd warranty is x amount of years or xxxx tbw witch ever comes first if i spend all the tbw in a month so be it. I brought the ssd i own it i will use it as i see fit . Maybe Galax is really afraid for people to figure out the real tbw their drives can take on average and they starting to blaming things sweating balls already !
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My 3x Optane 905p laugh at ssd's TBW

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chia miners presumably would only be interested in high capacity drives, so they could finally push demand enough to make 2tb+ SSD pricing make sense, I hoped consoles would do that but they are taking too damn long
it would be interesting to see where the chokepoint is on such a system, presumably its land rather than energy, and land allocation is not even remotely as flexible as energy, so this could make it more decentralized, although I'm finding it hard to imagine how 3-5w 30gram devices could amount to anything in terms of space
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"Good luck trying to enforce it since the manufacturer cannot PROVE it."
Actually, you could prove out relatively easily. SMART stores power up time and data read/written etc. It's easy to prove an abnormal amount of continuous data writes.
First thing I thought of is Intel Optane and standard hard disks. Easy and cheap to replace a 16GB Optane drive that's worn out.
Seriously good luck trying to ENFORCE this type of "limited use" policy in the US, Canada, EU, Australia or the free world.
Video editors, 3d render farms, streamers, archives maintenance, db storage and backup, etc...
I smell lost of market share and class action lawsuits. Any further push from the vendor can see sanctions on a national level.