Chia articles

Used Seagate drives sold as new traced back to crypto mining farms

A hot potato: A widespread scandal involving used Seagate hard drives fraudulently sold as new has continued to escalate, with new evidence suggesting that the drives originated from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms. The drives, many of which had logged 15,000 to 50,000 hours of prior use, were reportedly altered to appear unused before re-entering the retail supply chain.

Dropbox kills off unlimited storage offer in response to crypto-related abuses

Chia miners are trying to sell potentially degraded plotting drives

Backblaze will now let Chia miners store and farm plots in the cloud

Seagate and Western Digital increase HDD production as Chia sends sales skyrocketing

Sabrent Plotripper SSDs are designed for Chia farmers, feature up to insane 54,000 TBW endurance

Chia farming can reportedly ruin a 512GB SSD in 40 days

TeamGroup builds "ultra-durable" NVMe SSDs designed for Chia mining

Chia crypto mining spurs 500% jump in Adata SSD sales, warranty warning from Galax