Hey everyone! We’re excited to share that Chia Reapers are here!
More information is available on our website: www.tsquid.com
We won’t force you to go to the website to get the basic info, so here’s some description:
Our Reaper X16 comes pre-plotted with 2,176 Chia C15 compressed plots and has a total of 24 3.5″ internal HDD bays. 16 bays are occupied with 8TB SAS3 drives, and another 8 bays remain empty. The 8 empty bays allow for future expansion via SATA or SAS HDDs.
An upgrade kit will be released in the near future, allowing users to upgrade to a total of 36 drives without the need for a JBOD array, and up to 512 drives with JBODs.
Ubuntu is preinstalled and configured with XFCE Desktop, gnome-disks utility, htop, GRUB, and your choice of Chia farming software.
Ready to plug in and farm!
We have a lot planned for the future, including:
- New cases designed in-house, and manufactured in the USA
- Expansion kits and case mods
- Individual components such as: HDDs, RAM, drive arrays, volt converters, cables, and more
- More disk size options: 12TB, 18TB, 22TB, etc
- Pre-plotting at any compression level
Right now our focus is on delivering the X16 model with 16 8TB SAS drives, as we believe this is the “sweet spot” price-wise for home miners. We have inventory ready to plot and ship!
Total build price is under $1 per plot, and there’s 8 available 3.5" bays for adding your own SATA drives, which further reduces average cost of farm space.
After the 8 bays are full, another 12 bays can be added internally via our upgrade kit - which will be available in coming weeks. - Thus transforming the X16 into an X36, more than doubling the total plot count!
Farmers can also plug in external drive arrays to add hundreds of additional HDDs.
Add some RAM and a plotting NVME, and you’re off to the races plotting and re-plotting efficiently with Gigahorse or NoSSD.
As you can see, the Reaper X16 was purpose-built to provide the critical initial seed-plot for an expanding Chia farming empire.
I’m happy to answer any questions!
Leon at Thunder Squid