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by celsoazevedo 1862 days ago
> Translation: Scaleway didn't take SSD wear into account when designing their cloud.

I don't think many cloud providers expect all their disks to fail every 1-3 months, which is what happens when you mine Chia on a SSD/NVMe.

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Yup, all cloud (well, all rental) business relies on rented resources to not be 100% utilised. Oversubscription is how they can offer prices cheaper than buying the resource yourself.