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Re:What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for ha... by curryst on Sunday May 02, 2021 @05:37PM (#27019278)
> wouldn't it be more interesting for people to have spinning drives (for the better ratio of GB / $)?

You do trade off for a slower read rate. If the rate of requests coming in is fast enough, your spinning drive/s may not be fast enough to go through the indexes for each one.

Re:What is Chia cryptocurrency and why is it bad news for ha... by chade on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:46PM (#27020827)
Spinning disks are more than fast enough for farming. Many use network connected spinning disks. Tape drive is not fast enough however.