Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space

Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by skybrian on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:42PM (#26977197)

To speculate, it seems like the lowest-cost supplier will win and that’s likely to be used drives from data centers. Chia farming uses storage, but not necessarily reliable storage so maybe any drives that start looking flaky could be rented out to Chia farmers, to get a bit more use out of them?

At least some data centers destroy their old drives for privacy reasons, so they would need to figure out a way around that if they’re going to reuse them offsite.

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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by gruez on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:56PM (#26977277)

>To speculate, it seems like the lowest-cost supplier will win and that’s likely to be used drives from data centers. Chia farming uses storage, but not necessarily reliable storage so maybe any drives that start looking flaky could be rented out to Chia farmers, to get a bit more use out of them?

AFAIK people already buy up used datacenter drives to use elsewhere, so you're just shifting demand around.

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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by rbanffy on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:16AM (#26979696)

If the data on the drive is encrypted, there’s no need to shred decommissioned drives.

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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by skybrian on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:45AM (#26990160)

True, but some companies are extra careful. Or were anyway, back when I got a tour.

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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by rbanffy on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:58AM (#26991893)

True. You can hold the drive for a couple decades and then decrypt it with your shiny new MacBook based on the newly released Q1 quantum processors. ;-)

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