Which is more convenient and better in terms of profit and investment? Mining coins ( POW ) or using HDD to mine ( POC )? I heard that you can mine coins like BHD and Burstcoin with HDD and it doesn't consume electricity like that on GPU or Asic mining, I need some info on this fam.
While this is true, you consume less electricity, the gains are not that great.
You'd need a rig with 100TB+ disk space to make some decent money, and i'm not calculating in the internet connection and cost of disks as well.
Additionally, even if you get these for free, you only get paid when your disk is used, and this will solely be determined by the disk speed and the internet speed
If you intend to mine using a hard disk then it better to use SSD than HDD since SSD writes several times faster than HDD.
But be informed that HDD or SSD used for mining have shorter life spans due to the excessive strain on the harddisk
This is one example of how fast a hardisk would die if used in cryptocurrency mining
It is being reported that if an average consumer-grade 512GB SSD is used for Chia farming, the SSD could fail within 40 days while 1TB SSD could be killed in less than 3 months and the 2TB drive in 160 days. The speed at which SSDs are failing is concerning because typically a standard 512GB SSD lasts for up to 5 years. Moreover, the SSD manufacturers have refused to offer any warranty and replacement for drives that fail due to Chia mining. Galax has already issued a notice on its Chinese website stating that using Galax SSD for mining cryptocurrency will void the product warranty.
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