06-25-2021, 03:20 PM
Warning to all dedicated hosts!
Huge amounts of our sales leads are now for Chia miners.
They use massive cpu (and therefore power) to plot very large hard drives.
They always want an SSD (this improves plotting speed). They will burn out your SSDs. Every 1gb of HDD space "plotted" will require 15gb of writes to your SSDs.
When Chia crashes, this "demand" will disappear, leaving you with burnt out SSDs, large hard drives you don't need, and large power commitments without a customer to pay for them.
If you entertain these sales at all, make sure to use SSD with high endurance (3 drive writes per day rated or higher). Make sure to charge a setup fee.
Right now, a storage server that might be worth $1000/mo can bring in $1000/day in Chia. This is making people go bonkers.
Be careful out there!
Huge amounts of our sales leads are now for Chia miners.
They use massive cpu (and therefore power) to plot very large hard drives.
They always want an SSD (this improves plotting speed). They will burn out your SSDs. Every 1gb of HDD space "plotted" will require 15gb of writes to your SSDs.
When Chia crashes, this "demand" will disappear, leaving you with burnt out SSDs, large hard drives you don't need, and large power commitments without a customer to pay for them.
If you entertain these sales at all, make sure to use SSD with high endurance (3 drive writes per day rated or higher). Make sure to charge a setup fee.
Right now, a storage server that might be worth $1000/mo can bring in $1000/day in Chia. This is making people go bonkers.
Be careful out there!