tiger1962 Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 A new cryptocurrency called Chia is about to launch, and the mining process relies on disk space instead of GPU processor speed. In China, prices of large capacity HDD's have gone up as much as 100%: https://uk.pcmag.com/old-cryptocurrency/132912/chia-cryptocurrency-expected-to-cause-hard-drive-and-ssd-shortages https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/hard-drive-ssd-shortages-imminent-if-new-cryptocurrency-blooms Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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