On Sat, Jun 19, 2021, 9:39 PM jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Tom's Hardware: Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then Retracts Post.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/crucial-says-chia-cryptomining-voids-ssd-warranty-then-backs-down

Jim Bell's comment:

I wonder if DRAM-based SSD's would be practical for Chia mining.  There shouldn't be a need for non-volatility.    SD- cards get a lot of their density by constructing them in many layers, up to 144 I recently read.  
I  haven't been keeping up with DRAM construction techniques, but I wonder if DRAMs can be multi-layered in a similar way.

There's no existing market to finance the technology at smaller scale; how would it get started selling?


I also wonder what is the wearout mechanism for SD non-volatile memories.  

I'm pretty sure plotting doesn't involve rewriting.  It's write-once.

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Chia uses the same mining mechanism as a handful of altcoins but is much more popular.  I wonder if it's related to the similarity of its name to the name of a country.