Tom's Hardware: Chia: Stop Farming with Consumer SSDs or Stop Complaining About
Endurance.
[1]https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-releases-statement-regarding-ssd-endur
ance

   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.

References

   1. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chia-releases-statement-regarding-ssd-endurance