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Chia plotting/farming at hobbyist scale shouldn't wear out anything.

But you're not going to make any money either. According to Chia Calculator 100TiB would generate a whopping $6.17 a day. Just like mining any other crypto it's already out of reach for hobbyists.

https://chiacalculator.com/

Hm. Would be a way to subsidize the price of my NAS expansion though. Only 10TB left makes me want an upgrade to 56 TB more, that's not cheap. Allocating 40TB to chia over a year would cover a good 2.5 * 365 = ~1000 a year. That's a nice subsidy to my NAS setup if all it requires is that I burn out a 1TB SSD.

Your calculations are probably correct, but the whole cryptocurrency fad strikes me as completely ridiculous.

It’s like a farm burning some of their crops to generate a bit of hot air for wind power. Like, you can do it and it gives you that small amount of power but you’re literally destroying the resource and probably cause a lot of waste in the system as a whole.

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