Chia farming is a less intensive task when trying to get in on the latest crypto craze. While Chia plotting requires an SSD for optimal performance, farming on the other hand thrives on hard drives and can run on just about anything. Of course, the Raspberry Pi is the homelabber’s delight, a little unit that

Today we’ll be turning what, at first glance, appears to be a pile of gaming gear, into a DIY NAS build! If you’ve never built a NAS before, or even heard of one, don’t worry; this in-depth guide will walk you through the ins and outs of NAS. We’ll start by covering off on what

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

NetApp has added to their line of all-flash storage arrays with the new entry-midrange NetApp AFF A250.  It’s one thing to be all-flash at this price band. But NetApp takes flash further with end-to-end NVMe including support for NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC). While NetApp is well known for high-performance all-flash arrays (check out our

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