Monday, May 31st 2021
Sabrent Rides the Chia Cryptocurrency Wave, Announces "Plotripper" SSDs with up to 54,000 TBW Endurance
Sabrent, which has become one of the go-tos in the world of Chia plotting and farming due to the price/performance/endurance ratio of its Rocket NVMe SSDs, has announced a new series of products specifically developed and marketed towards the Chia plotting crowds. Their new Plotripper SSDs (which drink from a quite obvious reference to AMD's Threadripper) have been designed to endure the harsh writing cycles for Chia plotting. Plotting is the process wherein you calculate the cryptographically-generated plots, and which can incur SSDs on a 1.6 TB write workload per 101 GB plot. The finished plot is then usually offloaded to a slow, capacious storage device (such as an external HDD) where it lays, awaiting for network challenges ad-infinitum. At time of writing, the total storage committed to Chia farming is estimated at 14 Exabytes.
The new Plotripper products are available in a mainstream and a "pro" variant. The mainstream Sabrent Plotripper offers a 10,000 TBW for its 2 TB capacity, which is already one of the highest available in consumer drives (until now). The Pro versions, however, promise 27,000 TBW of endurance for its 1 Tb capacity, and a staggering 54,000 TBW endurance rating for the 2 TB one. No word on pricing as of now, but these are sure to become some of the most sought-after SSDs for anyone planning to enter the Chia "farming" scene - and will definitely be priced accordingly.
Source:
TweakTown
The new Plotripper products are available in a mainstream and a "pro" variant. The mainstream Sabrent Plotripper offers a 10,000 TBW for its 2 TB capacity, which is already one of the highest available in consumer drives (until now). The Pro versions, however, promise 27,000 TBW of endurance for its 1 Tb capacity, and a staggering 54,000 TBW endurance rating for the 2 TB one. No word on pricing as of now, but these are sure to become some of the most sought-after SSDs for anyone planning to enter the Chia "farming" scene - and will definitely be priced accordingly.
62 Comments on Sabrent Rides the Chia Cryptocurrency Wave, Announces "Plotripper" SSDs with up to 54,000 TBW Endurance
crypto mining is really out of control. I really hope this madness will stop soon.
I was about to buy your Rocket Q nvme soon too, LOL take care Sabrent, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Here's the $64 question: Do these drives ACTUALLY perform as advertised? If yes, then I want some of this "SLC mode" stuff! Even if it only gets close, I'd still say it's a winner.They didn't. But then again, we have progressed since that time..
A huge deal when Optane was announce was that write endurance. What consumer model have you seen get even a 5th of the 54 000 TBW?
54000TBW VS 2TB actual space. Simple division shows that is a total drive durability of 27000P/E cycles, putting this NAND based drive firmly above MLC of any kind and getting into the solidly performing SLC range. Whatever methods Sabrent is using to achieve this performance is worth paying attention too.
So to answer your question, I have two SSD's that are capable of that level of performance, both are SLC based but they are only 16GB and 32GB in capacity. Both are OCZ branded. What makes this proposed Sabrent product a stand out drive is the fact that it gets SLC like durability in a 2TB capacity. Even if they were to drop it to MLC mode and make a 4TB drive it would be an EXCELLENT consumer model!
So the question remains: What are the prices?
I'd rather turn my nose up to QLC NAND, I feel like it'll ruin the good quality value SSDs we have right now. QLC is fine in specific cases, like the Intel H20, the Samsung 980 went DRAM-less TLC already, imagine it being QLC and the marketing just uses the speeds of the SLC cache, the majority would be none the wiser
also any supporting of crypto in any form to keep it alive is a major no for me.you are right! and as a capitalist consumer, I choose not to buy them! that's how capitalism works, its great!
Cryptocurrency and blockchain in general has the potential to give the world something great. I have always believed that. It is very much in it's infancy though, nearly everyone acknowledges this. The energy usage will fall with time, and the benefits will be fully realized with time. If people don't take weird stances like this, prematurely killing it anyways.
I mean it's totally your call. I just don't personally get it.
MLC is 5-10x more durable than QLC.
TLC is about 3x more than QLC.