{"id":42753,"date":"2021-05-19T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T08:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=42753"},"modified":"2025-08-31T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:37:40","slug":"prices-of-some-hdd-models-in-the-united-states-rise-by-200-amid-chia-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/prices-of-some-hdd-models-in-the-united-states-rise-by-200-amid-chia-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Prices of some HDD models in the United States rise by $200 amid Chia demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Due to elevated demand for hard drives from Chia miners, prices for high-capacity HDDs at U.S. retailers have risen by several hundred dollars. Tom\u2019s Hardware reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compared with early 2021, by May the price of the Toshiba X300 12TB HDD rose from $320 to $500.<\/p>\n

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Data: Tom\u2019s Hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BarraCuda Pro 14TB rose from $480 to $649. The WD Gold 14TB, designed for enterprises, now costs $630 instead of $410.<\/p>\n

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Data: Tom\u2019s Hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Disks for NAS and data-centres are considered the most cost-effective for Chia mining. 8TB drives rose by only $40\u2013$70, while higher-capacity models rose much more.<\/p>\n

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Data: Tom\u2019s Hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since mid-April 2021, data-centre hard drives with 16TB capacities or more have become $250\u2013$400 more expensive, depending on the model, and some have disappeared from sale.<\/p>\n

Before the Chia craze, their prices had been falling for many months. For example, the Seagate Exos X16 16TB, from June 2020 to April 2021, fell from $700 to $320, but then the price instantly jumped to $630.<\/p>\n

Hard drives for home PCs with 6\u20138 TB capacity and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology hardly rose in price. The Seagate BarraCuda 6TB model kept its pre-Chia price, while the WD Blue 6TB rose by $15.<\/span><\/p>\n

The price of the Seagate BarraCuda 8TB rose in the spring from $140 to $190.<\/p>\n

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Data: Tom\u2019s Hardware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

High-capacity drives with larger-capacity recording in overlap (CMR) have risen more sharply. BarraCuda Pro 10TB rose from $350 to $400, and the Toshiba X300 10TB from $260 to $295.<\/p>\n

As of writing, the total disk space occupied by the Chia cryptocurrency exceeds 7.8 exabytes<\/a>. The price of XCH is $1,130.<\/p>\n

The Chia network creator Bram Cohen\u2019s protocol uses the Proof-of-Space and Proof-of-Time consensus algorithms (the proofs of space and time).<\/p>\n

Miners of the coin have already created a local shortage of HDDs and SSDs<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Phison Electronics warned of upcoming price increases for SSDs<\/a> due to the hype around Chia mining.<\/p>\n

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