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used enterprise and data center SSDs are recommended for plotting to due the higher capacity, higher performance, sustained bandwidth, and high endurance ratings required for plotting a large amount of data
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The idea of this plotting build centers around 8 core desktop CPUs being the plotting sweet spot for a low end budget, in terms of price, performance, IO connectivity and DRAM requirements. The build aims at getting 8 plotting processes concurrently for a target of 2.5-3TB total amount plotted per day for a total cost of under $1000. Plot time target is between 25000-28000 seconds.
The Chia Network is a blockchain protocol founded by Bram Cohen of Bittorrent Fame. Chia was created as a “Green” alternative to the popular consensus algorithm Proof and Work and more secure and decentralized alternative to Proof of Stake.
