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
Also re: pricing, keep in mind Z-NAND SLC came out at $2.16/GB (960GB for $2075.85) vs. the 4TB (1TB in SLC mode) Rocket Q at $649.99 right now, or less than 1/3rd the cost per SLC GB. Sabrent has some wiggle room to bounce that up.
ewaste and wasting a tons of energy are two major concerns.
but you can just take a tour on the dark web to take a look of what you can do with non traceable crypto currency to understand why we don’t need it.me too
Crypto might have shown mostly its dark side so far, but I am still curious to see what change it might bring to the global finance systems now that more people are aware of it and even recognize its value.
People really need to educate themselves before they hate.
But we don’t need crypto currency...
And as I said before, energy consumption and e-waste are not a small issue too...
Same could be said for cryptocurrency.
that’s why they are the preferred choice to buy drugs, weapons and access to illegal pornography on the dark web. Because they are so traceable :rolleyes:
Every time you argue with a miner, he is in complete denial mode.Next time you eat meat, try with without a knife.
demand can be (artificially) created and who knows what crypto maybe good for in a positive way in the future.
I am also against the huge power consumption of PoW cryptos in general, but if creating ewaste is a reason enough to kill off crypto, there are a whole bunch of things (including the computer I am using now) should probably not be allowed.
It would be messy, sure. But something isn't classified as necessary unless you cannot do a task without that thing. And you can eat meat without a knife. That's why we have teeth, after all.
Do you know that mankind is using knives since Bronze Age, more than 4000 years ago ? Not to speak about edged tools made more than 2 million years ago...
I know you are a miner in denial, but now you are being ridiculous.
And no, human teeth aren't made to eat meat.
The issue is, as it always has been, many countries and banks don't do that.You know, I was a news writer here once for crypto and it wasn't all rose tinted sunglasses. People forget quick.
I think you just need to understand what you criticize.
And yes, human teeth (and our intenstinal system) are made for an omnivoric diet; that includes meat. We can, and do, live off meat. Cooked obviously makes the process a whole lot easier but we do eat raw meat from time to time. Sushi, beef jerky, smoked beef, cured meats, etc.
I am not in denial about being a miner, by the way. I have and do mine with my GPU. I know people on this forum usually don't like that because they associate it with e-waste and wasting of electricity, but that's just not the case with me. It's my gaming GPU that otherwise would go unused at night, and the electricity in my country is >99% hydro.
We are getting way off-topic anyhow so this is my last response on this topic.