Mining Chia on an SSD Will Wreck It in No Time Flat
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3 min readMay 26, 2021
by Joel Hruska
When SSDs first began shipping in consumer products, there were understandable concerns about their longevity. Time, steadily improving manufacturing techniques, and some low-level OS improvements have all contributed to solid-state storage’s reputation for durability. With reports praising SSDs as provisionally more reliable than hard drives even under heavy…