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-w...

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. -- 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.