It’s enterprise grade and seems like it can handle a lot of writes. Perfect size to throw 14 plots at a time. Do you think this is the best option for gen4 ssds right now? It has 6500 MB/s read speeds which seems kind of nuts!
There is a big difference between sequential and random and historically gen 3 is better on random
But last time I checked was when that ancient gigabyte add withe huge copper heatsink was new
I haven’t noticed that? Ever since the toshiba controller with gen4 capabilities from last year, the random speeds are super fast
From Der8auer’s video, it seems that Chia puts a tremendous amount of wear on SSDs during the plotting process;
I wonder if one could use Optane to absorb most of the drive-wearing writes, then offload the final plot to an HDD (maybe even SMR) for long term storage.
As a happy by-product, if it works, the resulting miner-purchasing volume could maybe finally help drive Optane into mass production. If nothing else, the eventual second hand market would probably still leave us with higher-remaining-edurance drives than new SSDs and with higher performance.
I don’t know much about Chia, but can you trade latency / throughput for parallelism, e.g. just get a bunch of micron 5210 SATA ssd?
Actually it seems to be a wash, with 3 years ROI on storage, it seems like HDD prices should be coming back to normal soon.
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