IT House News on May 3 The recent popularity of Chia mining has caused the prices of mechanical hard drives and solid-state drives to rise. According to foreign media Aroged, SSD manufacturer Adata recently stated that the brand's solid-state drive sales increased five times, especially large-capacity SSD sales.

The mining method of Chia Coin is to use hard disk space. The larger the capacity, the higher the mining efficiency. Although large-capacity mechanical hard drives are more cost-effective, solid-state hard drives have the advantage of reading and writing speeds and are also suitable for mining. Foreign media stated that Chia coin miners prefer to use SATA SSDs instead of NVMe SSDs. This is because NVMe SSDs need to occupy a large number of PCIe channels, and the number of channels a CPU or motherboard can provide is very limited. However, with the slower SATA interface, the same platform can support a large number of SATA SSDs.

IT House learned that Onda recently released a Chia currency-specific motherboard with up to 32 SATA interfaces. This product is called Chia-D32H-D4, and Onda has specially equipped it with an 800W power 80Plus gold medal power supply. The motherboard is powered by the B365 chipset and has 4 memory slots along with a PCIe slot.