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Zkuq said:

Hmm. Makes me think if I should buy another external HDD while I still can, for backup purposes. This doesn't seem to be affecting SSDs, correct? Because of their higher prices, I would assume? If this is HDDs only, I don't really care, because I don't need that much storage (except for external storage, and my needs are more in the range of 1-4 TB).

Sort of

The way that the coin works is this. There's more or less 2 main stages.

First stage is the plotting stage.

You dedicated a temporary space on your hard drive but realistically, this requires a fast SSD otherwise the plotting stage takes forever. Once you have your temporary space, the program will then start "plotting the land" so to speak on that temporary space.

Once it is done plotting, then it moves to stage 2 which is "farming."

Farming is when you have to dedicate space for the long term and the files that were made in the temporary space gets moved into the hard drive. This is where you would use a large hard drive and it needs to run 24/7. The way that people get the Chia coin is through chance but the more plots that you have, the higher your chance is to get paid. There is also an estimated time which goes significantly lower as you increase your plots.

As this needs both a very fast SSD and large hard drive, we could certainly see this affecting SSDs as well. This is one of those things that separates the men from the boys when it comes to SSDs cause if you have a cheap or even an okay SSD, it will kill it where as if you have something like a Samsung Evo or Pro, those will be worth their weight in gold if this continues to take off.

So for now, hard drives are high in demand but there's gonna be a ton of SSDs that's about to get murdered.