Chia mining lift SSD upsurge, Futurepath to control the storage market quality

Recently, a cryptocurrency explosion network called Chia announced the arrival of the era of hard disk mining, which has attracted widespread attention from miners and storage fields. Chia mining is different from other mining modes. It no longer has high requirements on the computing power of the graphics card, but requires a large storage space and a high TBW (data write volume) hard disk. And because of its mining logic and operating mechanism, during the mining process, a P disk (using a unique algorithm to fill the disk with hash data) will be performed, which requires a large number of frequent read and write operations on the hard disk, which has a great impact on the life of the flash memory. Because of the high loss, in the global shortage of semiconductor materials and the shortage of flash memory, a wave of rush to buy SSDs and HDDs has been triggered. The prices of various large-capacity SSDs and HDDs have risen rapidly, and the supply is in short supply.

According to relevant data, during the mining process, most of the SSD's write life is exhausted within half a year, and the worst write life is only 40 days. The consumption capacity of the SSD life of Chia coin mining can be seen. The Hash Power Forum broke the news that there are currently about 30,000 10TB hard drives in the network that are mining, an increase of about 500 per day. From this point of view, the fiery attack of Chia coins will not only cause storage products, especially SSDs and HDDs, to continue to experience tight supply and price increases for a period of time in the future, but it will also cause confusion in the storage market. At the same time, under the pursuit of profit, a large number of storage products will be used for mining. Because the life and write endurance of ordinary SSDs are not enough to support the frequent read and write operations of "mining", the life of SSDs is quickly consumed. For the "miners" who have been engaged in the "mining" business, how to choose a cost-effective and long-life SSD is particularly important. After the Chia coin mining trend, there is a high probability that a large number of idle mining storage products will appear in the storage second-hand market, with different life losses and uneven quality, which will bring more chaos to the storage market. At this time, for ordinary consumers, how to distinguish the quality of flash memory and the life of flash memory on the market, and how to avoid "stepping on pits" will be an important issue.

Data source: ChinaFlashMarket

Remarks: Select SSDs with different capacities and TBW according to the life expectancy of Plot 1 disk

Regarding the current status of the storage market caused by the hot Chia coin, Futurepath stated that it can use self-developed flash memory test technology to provide users with high-reliability solid-state storage application solutions, accurately define the quality and application of flash memory, and conduct flash Reliability life prediction.

Futurepath flash memory chip intelligent test system and flash memory reliability and life prediction technology use artificial neural network algorithms, and the average life prediction accuracy is as high as 95.64%. At the same time, with 512 test equipment with the characteristics of high operability, high compatibility and high efficiency, it can achieve the reliability life prediction of flash memory while improving the identification ability and detection efficiency of NAND Flash quality, providing various application fields Reliable storage quality assurance.

Comparison between predicted value and actual value of artificial neural network algorithm

(data from Fortune Technology Lab, for reference only)