Selling my HDDs

It is hard to crack it. In that video, he mentioned 40EB farm, so I would assume he mentioned the raw HD space (I think he was mostly running NoSSD, so it could as well be 20 EB raw, if he used about 2x compression).

  1. assuming that he has only 20TB drives, that would be 2k drives to sell (using 40 EB raw)
  2. in that eBay listing, he only has 12 and 14 TB drives, so most likely his total is close to 3k drives (again, if we use 20 EB raw, that 1.5k drives would be close enough)
  3. in that video he mentioned that he is also considering trying MMX, so needs some drives for that
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I guess, no point to argue, as whatever conclusions we draw, they could be justified by how we understand his situation. The best is just let him clarify (if he cares), and just let it go.

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He was running NoSSD and Dr Plotter, 43 PiBe and 22 PiB raw, he clearly said he may well do MMX, and if XCH price goes up he might restart Chia.

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I hope you will pop in once in a while. I have always enjoyed reading your posts. Besides that you are one of the few lawyers I have come across that I am genuinely fond ofšŸ˜‚. This community will be a lesser place without you. I hope to hear from you in the future here.

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I love when people scream about the price, this is the common mistake which a lot of retail does. BTC was going from 100 down to 20. Everyone who has sold wants his coins now back. And when we take a look into future energy price is a big thing. BTC is an outdated blockchain, chia has more value than BTC as with his possibilities like smart contracts and his own portable programming language.

I think he is only selling small capacity drives. Btw these prices are on the high side.

I could be wrong, I find that I often am. But, nothing I have seen to date out of CNIā€™s programming prowess would make me think that would add much to the value of this blockchain. And you use Bitcoin as a shining example as well as saying it is an obsolete chain. Yet, who would trade an equal dollar amount of Bitcoin for the same amount of Chia. I certainly would not.

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Chia might have more POTENTIAL than Bitcoin, but itā€™s VALUE right now isnā€™t even one penny on the dollar compared to Bitcoin.
And there are tons of examples just in Cryptocoin where ā€œpotentialā€ has never been achieved, vs perhaps a half dozen where it has.

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Whatā€™s funny is I bought 3 of these!

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Wow checking back in here to a lot of questions and speculation. To clarify, this is me:

-Living in Southern California where electricity is $0.21 kWh. Yes, I have solar, but not 30 kW of solar.

-My garage has about 22-24 PiB of raw disk space. I donā€™t like to mess with details (I am not an A-type), so this is a close estimate.

-I plan to keep one rack of my highest density (18-22TB drives, 600 drives total) in case of a PoST miracle;

-Selling JBODs and HDDs for on average $7 / tb

-eBay is better than it was before, but it still sucks. I want to get rid of everything at once.

From here, AMA. I am an open book.

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No matter how great something actually is, markets dictate price. And the price charts are downright scary to me. I donā€™t understand how most farmers can afford to farm, but more power to you if you can. I canā€™t. So itā€™s time to sell off at 75% clearance sale to all you who can.

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Do you have natural gas running to your house for the stove and dryer etc?
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What would be the cost of natural gas to run a generator that feeds the equipment?

My wife would murder me. So would my HOA.

FYI my eBay listings were updated this morning with more HDD.

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Can you ship to the UK via the Global Shipping Program that eBay runs?

Could do with three 12TB drives for my NAS.

In my case, Iā€™ve got cheap power.
Most donā€™t.
Makes me a bit more patient, as I can be profitable at a much lower price.

By the time I check out the Ebay page: only shoes left? Bah!

Check it again - I re-listed a boatload of HDDs.

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Can you ship to the UK via the Global Shipping Program that eBay runs?

It will make no difference to you, you post to a US address, then they ship to me.

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Update - I found a bulk buyer to take everything next week. Getting about $2.50 TB on average.

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WOW, thatā€™s low, but if it saves the hassle of advertising, packing and posting everything I canā€™t blame you for going that route.