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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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#5909111 Posted on: 05/01/2021 05:53 PM
that's fine if the tbw reach the warranty limit then yes they did not even need to state that . What worries me is that they made that announcement in case someone say spend the 300 out of 600 tbw in a month and the drives break to use it to not honor the warranty .
When people buy, they're free to use it as they like. As for warranty, x years or xxx TBW whichever comes first is also correct. If you spend up your TBW before x years your warranty is out. So even without Galax making the statement, the warranty policy already stated that farming might not be covered by the warranty because you used up your TBW in shorter time.
that's fine if the tbw reach the warranty limit then yes they did not even need to state that . What worries me is that they made that announcement in case someone say spend the 300 out of 600 tbw in a month and the drives break to use it to not honor the warranty .
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#5909121 Posted on: 05/01/2021 07:13 PM
This amount of stupid in this thread is staggering. You do realize almost all consumer level hard drive and ssd come with SMART that shows how much data is written to it right? Also warranty has terms for limited about of terabytes written. If you are mining on consumer hard drive and writing tens or hundreds of terabytes of data a day, your warranty will be gone in under a month.
It's just like buying a regular 4 passenger car from a dealer brand new and immediately racing it on an oval track at 100% throttle 24/7. It's going to break well before any sort of guarantee with mileage or time in mind, and your dealer WILL void their warranty because you abused the car well beyond a typical use case.
I would argue that video cards also need SMART to show how long they are running in compute mode at 100% load. Undervolting and underclocking isn't an excuse that makes it fine. Same goes for CPU's that need some sort of e-fuse to blow once you overclock it or enable XMP so customers can't lie and say "I ran it stock all the time".
This amount of stupid in this thread is staggering. You do realize almost all consumer level hard drive and ssd come with SMART that shows how much data is written to it right? Also warranty has terms for limited about of terabytes written. If you are mining on consumer hard drive and writing tens or hundreds of terabytes of data a day, your warranty will be gone in under a month.
It's just like buying a regular 4 passenger car from a dealer brand new and immediately racing it on an oval track at 100% throttle 24/7. It's going to break well before any sort of guarantee with mileage or time in mind, and your dealer WILL void their warranty because you abused the car well beyond a typical use case.
I would argue that video cards also need SMART to show how long they are running in compute mode at 100% load. Undervolting and underclocking isn't an excuse that makes it fine. Same goes for CPU's that need some sort of e-fuse to blow once you overclock it or enable XMP so customers can't lie and say "I ran it stock all the time".
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#5909137 Posted on: 05/01/2021 09:31 PM
BTW. Eth mining hammers ssd? I can't detect anything during mining
BTW. Eth mining hammers ssd? I can't detect anything during mining
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#5909161 Posted on: 05/01/2021 11:57 PM
no it isn't.
but they do set a GB or TBW/d rating that they can fall back on to presume mining related usage.
a 24/7 power on hour count since date of purchase is clearly fishy.
no it isn't.
but they do set a GB or TBW/d rating that they can fall back on to presume mining related usage.
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Pretty sure you can't change the terms and conditions of the product after it's sold to the customer. Lawyers will be rubbing hands in glee, it's like car manufacturer suddenly saying we won't warranty your car for it's 100,000 miles, because you took it off roading for few thousand miles, won't stand up against legal challenges.