We’ve written prior about Chia plot migration and how best to handle that move when running separate plotting and farming rigs. It just so happens that Icy Dock sent us over a new device that may make this process easier and faster for anyone wanting to access U.2 NVMe SSDs on any system with a

There are a lot of ways to farm Chia as it is highly dependent on flash storage and bulk HDD storage, not high-end GPUs and CPUs. We’ve looked at the best budget rig for plotting Chia and the top cheap SSDs for Chia plotting. Farming Chia specifically is less resource-intensive and has people searching for

Using an SSD for Chia plotting is ideal, but even with no moving parts, SSDs can get hot. This is especially true when considering the Chia plotting workload is almost entirely write-centric. In a server, drive cooling is native and designed to meet the needs of an SSD. For most PC rigs though, cooling might

One of the most frustrating parts of plotting and farming Chia is the aspect of keeping synchronized. When your node first comes online, there’s a Chia sync process that makes your node aware of others and other nodes aware of you. If you have another known node IP address, that can help speed your sync,

Plotting Chia requires an SSD, ideally an enterprise NVMe SSD, but some of the cheap consumer drives will get the job done for most. Once completed, the plots should live off on high-capacity hard drives for their low-impact farming task. The problem though is that many Chia rigs don’t have 3.5″ bays like our MicroServer

With the new cryptocurrency, Chia, raising eyebrows and going live next week, more and more people are trying to get in on the action. We wrote about the best budget plotting rig yesterday. However, people are already coming up with ways to plot for Chia and are running into issues with their SSDs. Today we

The Chia cryptocurrency has enraptured the crypto world, energizing storage nerds in a pretty fun and exciting way. While the Chia coin (XCH) doesn’t even start formally trading until next week, thousands of homelabbers and anyone with a spare SSD and patience for Chia farming have set to work. Because Chia is not dependent on

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