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

QNAP Systems has been cranking out progressively more powerful NAS machines for about the last 15 years or so. Much like its competitors, the company has released an OS that is easy to use and has most features needed from home use up to light SME use cases in QTS. QTS is now in its

Have you ever thought about building your own NAS with an arbitrary budget? And then did you think to yourself, I could surely outbuild two other chumps? Well if so, you’re at the right place. In this video, the StorageReview team will walk you through two unique DIY builds and compare them to a prebuilt

We recently reviewed the latest Intel Optane P5800X SSDs that can take advantage of PCIe Gen4 (outside of AMD platforms) thanks to the latest Intel CPUs.  Optane SSDs in servers make a lot of sense, the incredible performance profile makes caching and tiering exceedingly useful. For professional users with hungry applications though, purposing enterprise tech

The Dell UltraSharp U3821DW Monitor is a 38″ curved display with a huge amount of screen real estate and an immersive field of view, making it ideal for those who use several applications at once. The Dell monitor combines its WQHD+ (3840 x 1600) resolution and 99% sRGB factory calibration with InfinityEdge technology for a

Seagate has expanded its gaming storage line this time with a focus on PCs with the Seagate FireCuda Gaming Hard Drive. The drive is HDD-based so that means it can be picked up for less and have a higher capacity for the tradeoff of top performance. It does come with a top capacity of 5TB

The TEAMGROUP T-CREATE CLASSIC is the company’s newest PCIe SSD to hit the market and is the Gen3 model of the line (there’s also a Gen4 version). Though this NVMe drive is certainly an entry-level consumer release, the company claims that the T-CREATE CLASSIC is designed specifically for the creative professionals whose daily tasks include