Tom's Hardware: Chia: Stop Farming with Consumer SSDs or Stop Complaining About Endurance. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-releases-statement-regarding-ssd-endu... Jim Bell's comment: I made my SemiDisk in 1982 with DRAMs, not a non-volatile memory.  I just checked, and it appears that 16 gbyte of DDR4 DRAM costs roughly the same as 512 gbyte of USD.