[HN Gopher] Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warr...
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       Crucial Caves: Says Chia Cryptomining Voids SSD Warranty, Then
       Retracts Post
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-06-19 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | willis936 wrote:
       | I'm not sure I understand the warranty controversy with chia
       | mining. SSD warranties clearly state a period of time of number
       | of bytes written, whichever comes first. Is there an issue of the
       | SSD manufacturers not properly doing their actuaries and trying
       | to pull a fast one on consumers? If so, then chia farming has
       | been a great force of good imo. The market needs checks.
        
       | ItsTotallyOn wrote:
       | It makes absolutely zero sense for Crucial to implement such a
       | warranty restriction - This is already covered under the
       | endurance portion of the warranty.
       | 
       | Quoting its own warranty, falsely!, and then attempting to
       | implement that change retroactively is certainly grounds for a
       | class-action lawsuit. They were smart to back down from this.
        
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