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Guru3D.com » News » SSD Makers start warning that Mining Products Like Chia Coin Will Void Warranty

SSD Makers start warning that Mining Products Like Chia Coin Will Void Warranty

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/30/2021 09:24 AM | source: hd-tecnologia | 37 comment(s)
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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Fox2232
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#5908809 Posted on: 04/30/2021 09:57 AM
Is it like installing torrent client when user agrees he has no control over what's being downloaded/uploaded?

Still GALAX made rather arrogant statement.
“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. "

For real? I use my OS SSD (Vertex4 128GB) in "other" abnormal way. Because my Firefox has right now 507 tabs open. It not only eats quite some memory, it needs to be read and written down to SSD with every launch shutdown.
I am not native speaker, but I bet: "In our testing, we determined that damages are qualitative." Makes more sense and looks like much nicer.
And way they continue. It is really big
red flag
. GALAX'es Quality Standards mean that they have right to refuse warranty services? And that this decision is at their own discretion.

Everyone else who has drop of sanity left uses: "Warranty is 5 years or xxx TBW... whichever comes first."
But GALAX: "We detected some abnormal use in that 1 month you own our product. Sorry, According to our Quality Standards, we hereby refuse your warranty claim."

Excalibur1814
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#5908812 Posted on: 04/30/2021 10:06 AM
"507 tabs open"

That's a LOT of Pron to review!

TheDeeGee
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#5908819 Posted on: 04/30/2021 10:49 AM
They should do that for GPUs as well.

Fox2232
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#5908827 Posted on: 04/30/2021 11:27 AM
"507 tabs open"

That's a LOT of Pron to review!
That would be quite some benchmark for FF. But I have feeling that even my 32GB of RAM would not be enough to have them just cached as inactive tabs.
But a lot of them are for entertainment. Like IMDB pages for movies I plan to see someday or books/manga/YT.
If you think about content you want to have overview about, it may still be a lot. But having 50 tabs for different investment views. 30 for different personal data/communication. 50 for shopping. It adds really fast.

What I really liked was time when FF had beta for vertical tabs organizer instead of using top bar as I could scroll through them more easily and read actual tab names better. I even use vertical windows "taskbar".
And what I would appreciate would be pocket tabs where one would put set of tabs that would be shown as thumbnails of actual content. And upon clicking it would maximize inside of this "aggregate" tab. And then it would be possible to minimize it again. (Something like always active bookmark folder.)
Suddenly, I would use one master tab for YT, IMDB, ... One for G3D instead of 8.

I am quite used to multitasking. And I have feeling that if given right organizing tools, many more people would be too.

Valken
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#5908828 Posted on: 04/30/2021 11:29 AM
Good luck trying to enforce it since the manufacturer cannot PROVE it.

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