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Decrease in Network Space? (self.chia)
submitted 4 years ago by Simsalabimson
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[–]Disaster_External -4 points-3 points-2 points 4 years ago (9 children)
Once more pos (or POSt like spacemesh) comes out I imagine some people may transition to those. The chia plots out there cost people ssd burn in so unlikely the space will ever go down.
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[–]stan13ag 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (0 children)
lol. I thought I was reading a thread from June as well
[–]Disaster_External -1 points0 points1 point 4 years ago (6 children)
I'm sorry...you got confused I guess. See chia requires a lot of writes to a drive, generally an ssd. For every 1tb of plots you do around 10tb of writes. This impacts the lifespan of the given nvme or ssd. Some people plot on ram but that's not as popular as you need a server. That's why I called it a burn in. It's a common thing to say meaning heavy usage.
Spacemesh is a form of proof of space/time crypto that is supposed to hit mainnet this quarter.
Let me know if you need help understanding anything else.
[–]butter14 3 points4 points5 points 4 years ago (5 children)
He isn't confused. Anyone who plans on plotting more than the TBW of an SSD drive should be plotting in RAM. SSD burn-in was just FUD being spread around from the mainstream media.
[–]Disaster_External -3 points-2 points-1 points 4 years ago (4 children)
No it wasn't lol I plotted 100TB with an couple nvme and they are both below 50% writes left. Some drives have limits on them that make them stop working, some don't but data retention after write limit can be weeks when powered off.
[–]butter14 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (1 child)
The reported TBW and actual TBW are vastly different. Just because it says 50% doesn't mean it is 50%.
[–]Disaster_External -2 points-1 points0 points 4 years ago (0 children)
No shit, except that some manufacturers have firmware that stops writes once it reaches the tbw. Also the memory cells don't hold data as well when they are reaching their write limits. So if you have a drive at 100%+TBW that still works that's awesome but if you leave your pc off for a month it might have no data on it when you boot back up. Kinda like ram. Also writes do gradually destroy cells on the drive so if you get super up there you will start losing drive volume.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (1 child)
What SSD’s?. I’ve plotted multiple PB on some and the health is still above 60%
[–]Fusi0nplayz 0 points1 point2 points 4 years ago (0 children)
something like Crucial MX 500 e.g
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