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I definitely want to destroy my Home Nas in a matter of months to make a little money. This makes perfect sense. It seems like this is the energy problems of bitcoin but now it's physical hardware that is the inefficiency? I guess Bitcoin is similar with old miners becoming defunct etc and the cost of video cards. But intentionally running down the life of hard drives is a innovative new feature I guess

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The video cards were being used for ETH and altcoins. Thankfully ETH next upgrade is to turn off proof of work.

> I definitely want to destroy my Home Nas in a matter of months to make a little money.

That won't happen unless your NAS is a bunch of consumer grade SSDs, which I hope it is not.

Even consumer grade HDDs aren't built for sustained full load. I had few die in months just because of active torrents reseeding which is lighter load than chia.

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