On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 9:39 PM jim bell <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom's Hardware: Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, > Then Retracts > Post.https://www.tomshardware.com/news/crucial-says-chia-cryptomining-voids-ssd-warranty-then-backs-down > > > Jim Bell's comment: > > I wonder if DRAM-based SSD's would be practical for Chia mining. There > shouldn't be a need for non-volatility. SD- cards get a lot of their > density by constructing them in many layers, up to 144 I recently read. > I haven't been keeping up with DRAM construction techniques, but I wonder > if DRAMs can be multi-layered in a similar way. >
There's no existing market to finance the technology at smaller scale; how would it get started selling? > I also wonder what is the wearout mechanism for SD non-volatile memories. > I'm pretty sure plotting doesn't involve rewriting. It's write-once. -- Chia uses the same mining mechanism as a handful of altcoins but is much more popular. I wonder if it's related to the similarity of its name to the name of a country.
