[jl2718]

> Chia plotting is extremely I/O intensive and destroys most SSDs in under a few weeks

I need to look into this more, but I think this is an implementation issue. It should buffer in RAM to require only one write pass.

Edit: I was wrong. They set a minimum k that wouldn’t easily fit in ram.

[mvanaltvorst]

You need a relatively large amount of storage space for plotting, more than most RAM disks. It has proven to be more cost effective to consume SSD's than to use slower HDD's or a RAM disk.

[cookguyruffles]

Any idea why the minimum plot size needs to be so damn huge? Really killed the attractiveness of the whole scheme for me

[retzkek]

If the plot were smaller there's the risk that someone could calculate plots "on the fly" within the 30-second claim window, thus reducing Chia to proof-of-work (or even breaking it entirely? the "green" paper [1] is a bit too dense for me). It's expected and planned that k will have to increase to 33 in a few years to stay ahead.

[1]: https://www.chia.net/assets/ChiaGreenPaper.pdf

[VectorLock]

Now you just need terabytes of RAM.

[deepserket]

it is possible, the problem is just that you need around 240GiB of temporary memory