Roi on 14tb hard drive

[DanRelfe]

@jonesjr

Has anyone done the numbers. If one 14tb drive costs 250$ how long does it take to make that money back?? Once it’s full of plots. Like how much chia is that one drive worth for its 6 year lifetime?

Lots of info already here. Change numbers to suit.

Debate me. Large capacity drives vs. smaller capacity. Best strategy and why

To be fair, 1TB drives is probably an extreme example, but… Just did some quick and dirty, but accurate calculations. Assumptions: Domestic kWh rate used is $0.12 (probably fairly reasonable but I don’t reside in USA so not sure) XCH price as it is now, $42 per XCH XCH price and Electricity price stay the same over the 5 year illustration Power consumed per drive based on largly idle useage, spec sheets and from my own measurements Disk prices from diskprices.com, assuming purchased new, …