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Chia crypto mining will destroy your 500GB SSD in just 6 weeks – TweakTown
You can ruin a 512GB SSD in just 40 days when you’re crypto mining Chia, so you might want to be careful mining this crypto.
Chia is in the headlines for all the right and wrong reasons right now, with the storage-focused cryptocurrency created by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen burning through HDDs and SSDs like there’s no tomorrow.
If you’ve heard about Chia cryptocurrency mining and want to get into it… you might want to think twice, especially if you use an SSD as you could kill it in as soon as 40 days, or 6 weeks.
Chia crypto mining requires your SSD or HDD in order to mine, versus needing a high-end graphics card…
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