Intel Optane SSD P5800X brings 67% higher endurance (100DWPD vs 60DWPD) than the first generation and even more performance as it supports PCIe gen4 bandwidths. Intel’s recent announcement that their second-generation Intel Optane SSD P5800X is available to consumers received rave reviews. The first generation, Intel Optane SSD P4800X set a new standard in high endurance, high performance data center drives.
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The best-in-class throughput and endurance NVMe drive is an Intel® Optane™ SSD. A balance of performance and endurance on the drive is key to efficient and effective plotting. Consumer NVMe SSDs are not generally optimized for high endurance because the average user doesn’t actually write much data over the lifetime and thus these drives are more subject to wear-out during the plotting process. Chia advocates using enterprise NVMe flash drives as the drive of choice for plot temp drives as they can sustain high throughput and have higher endurance. A plot file is then moved from SSDs to hard drives for longer-term storage where periodically users farm their plots to see if it has a winning “proof”, broadcast from the Chia Network. SSDs are commonly used as temporary storage to speed up the process and handle the large number of writes that occur during the generation of Chia plots. The key to farming and making money with Chia is to plot quickly and efficiently, and then move those plots to a much cheaper, slower storage to farm. And that idea of space means taking advantage of storage. Chia is different from the more popular and well-known Bitcoin, and many other cryptocurrencies, as it is based on proof of space and not proof of work. Chia Network is the latest exciting entry in the blockchain-based cryptocurrency market.
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It’s not the magical seeds packed with vitamins for endurance runners or the plant pet that grows sprouts for hair. Which leads to the question of why? Why the sudden excitement about storage drives and how does Intel Optane SSD fit in? The technology news as of late has surprisingly been filled with news of drive shortages, the high rates of drive wear out, and big mark-ups on seemingly boring, standard drives. No one spends time thinking about their storage drive, especially not the differences between hard drives and solid-state drives, SATA and NVMe protocols, or client and enterprise drives. Storage rarely makes the headlines, even the technology headlines.