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What is Chia?

Chia was incorporated in August of 2017 to develop an improved blockchain and smart transaction platform. The company is building the Chia Network to improve the global financial and payments systems. Chia is the first enterprise-grade digital money. Chia is using the first new Nakamoto consensus algorithm since Bitcoin. Called Proof of Space and Time, it was created by Bram Cohen, the best network protocol engineer alive and the inventor of BitTorrent. Chialisp is Chia’s new smart transaction programming language that is powerful, easy to audit, and secure. Reference smart transactions currently available are: atomic swaps, authorized payees, recoverable wallets, multisig wallets, and rate-limited wallets. Essentially, users stand to benefit from copious amounts of high-speed storage.

Let’s discuss it through these two topics as explained by Scott Shadley, VP, NGD Systems.

Topic 1 — Dirt

Well, this eco-friendly crypto has a unique new issue. Chia takes a heavy toll on low-capacity drives with a low TBW (terabytes written) rating. A ‘dirt cheap’ SSD can be ‘destroyed’ in as little as a month or less. Why so? It has to do with Plotting… not the Farming…

A plot today takes roughly 100GB of storage space, while it can create up to 400GB of writes… That 4:1 or greater work needed means you are creating a write endurance challenge for the drives. So how to solve that… Create, use, deploy drives with the capacity to maximize plots in a given space, like a 32TB 2.5″ SSD (larger available) that can withstand the write issues created, while allowing for up to 300 plots.

Mining Chia on consumer-grade, low-capacity SSDs could prove to be fatal for your drive, says a new report. A 512 GB SSD reportedly lasts only forty days before it exceeds its TBW (terabytes written) rating, while a 1 TB SSD lasts for 80 days.
–Anil Ganti, 05/10/2021

Topic 2 — Tractors

While eco-friendly for farming, generating the plots to farm on storage takes time. Concurrent staggering of plots on a SATA SSD can take over 96 hours. That has to do with CPU, memory, and read/write speeds of the drives. We need a better way to do it.

How about using Mini Tractors instead of using big ones.

With a Computational Storage Drive (CSD) from NGD Systems, they provide a tractor per drive to do ‘Auto-Plotting’ of the SSDs. Oh, and if you really want it – Pre-plotted (with your key of course).

How does this work? Well, take a look at how we are solving problems today. We can do AI Inference, ML Training, DB search/sort. The idea of Auto-Plotting is a perfect synergy of solutions to help with the Chia needs. And when you are done ‘plotting’ and moving the plots to those Spinning Rust (high failure rate, low access time HDD). You can turn NGD Systems product into an even more meaning solution.